Complicit in Victimage: Imagined Marginality in Southern Communication Criticism

Rhetoric Review Apr 2019

Complicit in Victimage: Imagined Marginality in Southern Communication Criticism

Brandon Inabinet University of Memphis ; Christina Moss Furman University

Abstract

Tragic twenty-first century events linked to southern identity prompt reflection on regional identification in rhetoric’s critical literature. Doing so reveals the same “imagined marginality” seen in the broader public discourse, of counterpublic rhetoric that circulates an identification of exclusion from dominant identity. Southern regional theory and critical regionalism together reveal that topoi of space, historical consciousness, and insider-outsider hierarchy create relational identity. From the Agrarians’ victimization to the still pernicious redemption of early U.S. public address critics, up to accommodation by late twentieth century and contemporary critics, the record shows the complicity of the field in southern marginality discourses.

Journal: Rhetoric Review
Published: 2019-04-03
DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2019.1582228
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality

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