Pedagogy Apr 2012

Rhetorical Sovereignty and Rhetorical Alliance in the Writing Classroom

Lisa King

Abstract

This article discusses how teaching students to recognize the contemporary American Indian theoretical concepts of “rhetorical sovereignty” and “rhetorical alliance” in Native texts can help deepen understanding of American Indian voices and histories in an appropriate context, while also developing students' understandings of multiple and cross-cultural rhetorical frameworks.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2012-04-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-1503568
Open Access
Closed
Topics
voice and style

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (2)

  1. Hsu (2018)
    Reflection as Relationality: Rhetorical Alliances and Teaching Alternative Rhetorics
    College Composition and Communication
  2. Martinez et al. (2018)
    Comment & Response: A Response to Kim Hensley Owens’s “In Lak’ech, The Chic…
    College English

Cites in this index (3)

  1. Eck (2008)
    Thinking Globally, Teaching Locally: The “Nervous Conditions” of Cross-Cultural…
    College English
  2. Zitzer-Comfort (2008)
    Teaching Native American Literature: Inviting Students to See the World Through…
    Pedagogy
  3. Powell (2004)
    Down by the River, or How Susan La Flesche Picotte Can Teach Us about Alliance …
    College English
Also cites 9 works outside this index ↓
  1. Haas (2007)
    Wampum as Hypertext: An American Indian Intellectual Tradition of Multimedia Theory and P…
    Studies in American Indian Literatures  ↗
  2. Hall (2004)
    Pratt and Pratfalls: Revisioning Contact Zones
     ↗
  3. Lyons (2000)
    Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?
    College Composition and Communication  ↗
  4. Miller (1994)
    Fault Lines in the Contact Zone
    College English  ↗
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    Rhetorics of Survivance: How American Indians Use Writing
    College Composition and Communication  ↗
  6. Prendergast (1998)
    Race: The Absent Presence in Composition Studies
    College Composition and Communication  ↗
  7. Royster (1999)
    History in the Spaces Left: African American Presence and Narratives of Composition Studies
    College Composition and Communication  ↗
  8. Stromberg (2006)
    Rhetoric and American Indians: An Introduction
     ↗
  9. Villanueva (1999)
    On the Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism
    College Composition and Communication  ↗
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