Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition

According to Ryder et al., within the classical tradition, the student "remembers or recalls what he or she already knows" and "looks inward to find 'ideal forms' that constitute truth" (39). Hui Wu in "The Alternative Feminist Discourse of Post-Mao Chinese Writers...

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Published in:College composition and communication 2002, Vol.54 (1), p.158-161
Main Author: Flynn, Elizabeth A.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Afrocentrism
Bontemps, Arna Wendell (1902-1973)
Dash, Julie
Eaton, Edith Maude (Sui Sin Far) (1865-1914)
Educational Technology
Error Correction
Essays
Ethnicity
Females
Feminism
Foucault, Michel
Internet
Literacy
Miller, Cheryl
Persuasive Discourse
Reviews
Rhetoric
Schonberg, Jeff
Writing Teachers
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Summary:According to Ryder et al., within the classical tradition, the student "remembers or recalls what he or she already knows" and "looks inward to find 'ideal forms' that constitute truth" (39). Hui Wu in "The Alternative Feminist Discourse of Post-Mao Chinese Writers" argues that Chinese female writers struggle for women's rights but finds that "their rhetoric presents a feminist tendency different from that of Western feminists" (219) in that they contend that the biological fact of being a woman is an asset (224). Because the work of these feminists is critical of Maoist forms of feminism that masculinize women, however, they can address the issue of women's femininity "without fear of causing suspicion of essentialism" (225). Jeff Schonberg in "When Worlds Collide: Rhetorics of Profit, Rhetorics of Loss in Chinese Culture" emphasizes that the realities that underlie literacy movements such as increased economic profits, labor efficiency, and problem-solving capabilities result in ambivalent dis- courses (250).
ISSN:0010-096X
1939-9006
DOI:10.2307/1512111