Border rhetorics : citizenship and identity on the US-Mexico frontier /
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A "border" is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographic...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2012]
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Colección: | Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: For Rhetorical Border Studies
- D. Robert DeChaine; I. Conceptual Orientations; 1. Borders That Travel: Matters of the Figural Border
- Kent A. Ono; 2. Bordering as Social Practice: Intersectional Identifications and Coalitional Possibilities
- Julia R. Johnson; 3. Border Interventions: The Need to Shift from a Rhetoric of Security to a Rhetoric of Militarization
- Karma R. Chávez; II. Historical Consequences; 4. A Dispensational Rhetoric in "The Mexican Question in the Southwest"
- Michelle A. Holling
- 5. Mobilizing for National Inclusion: The Discursivity of Whiteness among Texas Mexicans' Arguments for Desegregation
- Lisa A. Flores and Mary Ann VillarrealIII. Legal Acts; 6. The Attempted Legitimation of the Vigilante Civil Border Patrols, the Militarization of the Mexican-USBorder, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
- Marouf Hasian Jr. and George F. McHendry Jr.; 7. Shot in the Back: Articulating the Ideologies of the Minutemen through a Political Trial
- Zach Justus; IV . Performative Affects
- 8. Looking "Illegal": Affect, Rhetoric, and Performativity in Arizona's Senate Bill
- Josue David Cisneros9. Love, Loss, and Immigration: Performative Reverberations between a Great-Grandmother and Great-Granddaughter
- Bernadette Marie Calafell; 10. Borders without Bodies: Affect, Paroximity, and Utopian Imaginaries through ""Lines in the Sand""
- Dustin Bradley Goltz and Kimberlee Perez; V. Media Circuits; 11. Transborder Politics: The Embodied Call of Conscience in Traffic
- Brian L. Ott and Diane M. Keeling
- 12. Decriminalizing Illegal Immigration: Immigrants' Rights through the Documentary Lens
- Anne Teresa Demo13. The Ragpicker-Citizen
- Toby Miller; Afterword: Border Optics
- John Louis Lucaites; Suggested Readings; Works Cited; Contributors; Index