Rhetoric Review Mar 2011

Remembering Is the Remedy: Jane Addams's Response to Conflicted Discourse

William Duffy University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Abstract

In The Long Road of Woman's Memory, Addams develops a theory of memory that accounts for the rhetorical function of reminiscence. Drawing on I. A. Richards's conception of rhetoric as the study of misunderstanding, this essay offers an analysis of Addams's theory in relationship to her attempts at rational discourse with a group of immigrant women who believed there was a “Devil Baby” in residence at Hull House. Her successes and failures during these conversations prompted Addams to consider the rhetorical function of memory as a theoretical tool both to understand and remedy discursive conflict.

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Rhetoric Review
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2011-03-21
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10.1080/07350198.2011.551499
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