[Discussion] CFP: Essay Collection on Outsider Rhetoric (4/30/05; collection)

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From: Anne Stockdell-Giesler <astockdell.giesler@ut.edu>

Subject: CFP: Essay Collection on Outsider Rhetoric (4/30/05; collection)

Call For Proposals: "Agency in the Margins: the History of Outsider 
Rhetoric"

Edited by Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler, Ph.D.


Seeking abstracts and proposals (up to 500 words) for essays concerned with
histories, traditions, or patterns of rhetoric taking place in the 
margins of
traditional disciplinary practice. One area of rhetorical theory and 
practice
that is underdeveloped is the study of the means of persuasion available 
to the
unempowered-those outside access to the polis, the academy, the 
political arena.
  People living outside of access to the traditional sites for rhetorical
participation do occasionally find access there, but always as outsiders 
still.
>From Aspasia onward, much of the research into marginal figures that took place
in the 1980s and 1990s focused on the occasional minority figure who 
made his or
her way into the public sphere using traditional academic rhetoric. We 
have not
much considered the rhetorical power of those who do not have social or
institutional identities despite their contributions in social and workplace
structures. This work will consider where outsiders to social, political,
academic, and economic power did and do participate, despite this lack of
representation in public life. Essays should address the concept of 
"outsider
rhetoric," or the study of how people in the margins actively, 
collaboratively,
deliberately practice rhetoric with a sense of political and social purpose,
throughout the history of the discipline.

Deadline: April 30, 2005


Please send proposals electronically or via regular mail to:
Dr. Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler
Department of English, Box R
The University of Tampa
401 W. Kennedy Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33606

astockdell.giesler@ut.edu


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