Readings on
Rhetoric and Performance
Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
University of Massachusetts
Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Indiana University
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: Body Politics, Social Drama, and Public Culture
SECTION ONE: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF RHETORIC AND PERFORMANCE
Dwight Conquergood, “Ethnography, Rhetoric, and Performance” (1992)
D. Soyini Madison, “Staging Fieldwork/Performing Human Rights” (2005)
Ralph Cintrón, “Blacktop” (1997)
Christine Lynn Garlough, “On the Political Uses of Folklore: Performance and Grassroots Feminist Activism in West India” (2008)
SECTION TWO: PERFORMATIVE WRITING AND RECORDING
Della Pollock, “Performing Writing” (1998)
Shannon Jackson, “White Noises: On Performing White, On Writing Performance” (1998)
Stephen Hartnett, “Four Meditations on the Search for Grace amidst Terror” (1999)
Joshua Gunn, “Mourning Speech: Haunting and the Spectral Voices of Nine-Eleven” (2004)
SECTION THREE: PERFORMATIVE acts
Interview by Peter Osborne, and Lynne Segal, “Gender as Performance: An Interview with Judith Butler” (1994)
John M. Sloop, “‘A Van with a Bar and a Bed’: Ritualized Gender Norms in the John/Joan Case” (2000)
E. Patrick Johnson, “‘Quare’ Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My Grandmother” (2001)
Diana Taylor, “The Theater of Operations: Performing Nation-ness in the Public Sphere” (1997)
SECTION FOUR: CULTURAL PERFORMANCE AND RHETORIC IN PUBLIC LIFE
Richard Bauman and Patrick Feaster, “‘Fellow Townsmen and My Noble Constituents!’: Representations of Oratory on Early Commercial Recordings” (2005)
Gerard A. Hauser, “Vernacular Dialogue and the Rhetoricality of Public Opinion” (1998)
Phaedra C. Pezzullo, “Resisting ‘National Breast Cancer Awareness Month’: The Rhetoric of Counterpublics and Their Cultural Performances” (2003)
Jeffrey A. Bennett, “Passing, Protesting, and the Arts of Resistance: Infiltrating the Ritual Space of Blood Donation” (2008)
SECTION FIVE: VISUALING RHETORIC AND PERFORMANCE
Debra Hawhee, “The Visible Spoken: Rhetoric, Athletics, and the Circulation of Honor” (2005)
Dana L. Cloud, “‘To Veil the Threat of Terror’: Afghan Women and the <Clash of Civilizations> in the Imagery of the U.S. War on Terror" (2004)
Bernadette Marie Calafell and Fernando P. Delgado, “Reading Latina/o Images: Interrogating Americanos” (2004)
Dan Brouwer, “The Precarious Visibility Politics of Self-Stigmatization: The Case of HIV/AIDS Tattoos” (1998)
FURTHER READINGS
Index
About the Editors
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