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Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?

Scott Richard Lyons
- 01 Feb 2000 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 3, pp 447
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In this paper, American Indians are making clear what they want from the hereto-fore compromised technology of writing, and they use the concept of Rhetorical Sovereignty, a people's control of its meaning, as a way of expressing their independence.
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After years of colonization, oppression, and resistance, American Indians are making clear what they want from the heretofore compromised technology of writing. Rhetorical sovereignty, a people’s control of its meaning, is found in sites legal, aesthetic, and pedagogical, and composition studies can both contribute to and learn from this work.

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Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy

Nancy Fraser
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The power of identity

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The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City

Neil Smith
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