The Body: An Abstract and Actual Rhetorical Concept

Karma R. Chávez Universidad Nacional Experimental Politécnica "Antonio José de Sucre"

Abstract

The body has always been an implicit concern for rhetorical studies. This essay suggests that that implicit concern has mostly relied on an abstract, and specific, concept of the body. It is only through bodily difference in contrast to the unspoken, yet specified, white, cisgender, able-bodied, heterosexual male standard that particular bodies come to matter. The essay ends with a discussion of the body of the black civil rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, in order to enact a “textual stare” at the field of rhetoric. This stare calls the field to be more attentive to what kinds of rhetorical performance are accepted on their own terms and what kinds deserve scrutiny.

Journal
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published
2018-05-27
DOI
10.1080/02773945.2018.1454182
Open Access
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