Impossible Rhetorics of Survivance at the Carlisle School, 1879–1883

College Composition and Communication Dec 2017

Impossible Rhetorics of Survivance at the Carlisle School, 1879–1883

Sarah Klotz

Abstract

This article proposes embodied and multimodal readings of student compositions from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a way to illuminate processes of assimilation and resistance. Drawing on Gerald Vizenor’s concept of survivance and the ways that the field of composition has taken up Vizenor’s work, I argue that the project remains incomplete if we confine our history of cultural rhetoric to resistant, individual, alphabetically literate voices as the sites of rhetorical sovereignty and rhetorics of survivance.

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 2017-12-01
DOI: 10.58680/ccc201729417
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality voice and style

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