Book Review| June 01 2016 Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance. By Erin J. Rand. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014; pp. xii + 212. $44.95 cloth. Michael Warren Tumolo Michael Warren Tumolo California State University, Stanislaus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (2): 340–343. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.2.0340 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Warren Tumolo; Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 June 2016; 19 (2): 340–343. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.2.0340 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The death of philosopher and public intellectual Jacques Derrida drew international attention and generated public acts of mourning in the media. Several of the published obituaries for Derrida are notable for their overtly hostile and dismissive tone. This essay explores the genre of epideictic rhetoric and is grounded in Derrida’s work on mourning, analyzing several instances of “uncivil” epideictic rhetoric including three hostile obituaries and several responses to them written by friends and colleagues of Derrida for the insight that they yield regarding ethical public remembrance. We argue that a sincere engagement with the ideas of the dead, while always incomplete, is at the heart of an ethical, civil mourning.

Book Review| September 01 2013 Prisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency Prisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency. By Gerard A. Hauser. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2012; pp. xvii + 283. $49.95 cloth. Michael Warren Tumolo Michael Warren Tumolo Duquesne University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2013) 16 (3): 591–594. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.3.0591 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Warren Tumolo; Prisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2013; 16 (3): 591–594. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.3.0591 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2013 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.