Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Sep 2009 Open Access

It's Not About Me: Public Writing and the Place of Principled Dissent

Diana George

Abstract

In a 2002 article, Patricia Roberts-Miller asked if rhetorical theory has a place for what she then called "principled dissent and sincere outrage." This article addresses that challenge, as the author follows a year of living in and writing for a community in Atlanta that works with the homeless in that city. In it, she argues that, if there is a place for dissenting rhetoric, it is taking place in marginalized movements and publications like the one published by Atlanta's Open Door Community. Hers is a follow-up of two previous discussions (both written with Paula Mathieu of Boston College) on what these authors are calling "a rhetoric of dissent."

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2009-09-01
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10.59236/rjv9i1pp3-25
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