Regionalizing rhetoric : making, writing, and teaching place
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Leah Justine Sink Haynes (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Risa Applegarth
Abstract: Rhetoricians have argued that place and culture are rhetorical, and that rhetoric is placed and cultural. This project identifies the rhetorics of place at work in popular writing, marketing and public relations efforts, and postsecondary teaching. I take as case studies publications The Bitter Southerner and Scalawag, festivals Merlefest and The Carolina Classic Fair, and my own first year writing classrooms. Through rhetorical analysis and rhetorical and institutional ethnography, I argue that sensory descriptions of place and conservative topoi shape region-making rhetorics for the (U.S.) Southern and Appalachian organizations studied. Further, the project demonstrates that a critical place-based pedagogy is a regionalizing approach to the teaching of writing, synthesizing variable methods for acknowledging place in the classroom. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that each of the cases studied are examples of regionalizing rhetorics — inventing and deploying region and regional identity for aesthetic, commercial, political, and pedagogical purpose.
Regionalizing rhetoric : making, writing, and teaching place
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2022
- Keywords
- Cultural rhetoric, Identity, Place, Region, Writing pedagogy
- Subjects
- Rhetoric $x Social aspects
- Culture $x Study and teaching
- Language and culture
- Place-based education