TY - JOUR
T1 - A Black Woman as Rhetorical Critic
T2 - Validating Self and Violating the Space of Otherness
AU - Davis, Olga Idriss
PY - 1998/1/1
Y1 - 1998/1/1
N2 - This essay explores a Black woman rhetorical critic's search to re-cover Black women's rhetorical traditions in America, which centers Black women's epistemology in a rhetoric of survival. A Black woman rhetorical critic locates self and violates the space of otherness through an African-American women's rhetorical tradition that endorses an ethic of care, dialogue for a meaning-making partnership, and a vision of unity in humanity. Hence, a Black feminist approach to rhetorical criticism celebrates the theoretical significance of the “ordinariness of everyday life” to reveal Black women's ways of crafting identities within an oppressive, socially-constructed reality.
AB - This essay explores a Black woman rhetorical critic's search to re-cover Black women's rhetorical traditions in America, which centers Black women's epistemology in a rhetoric of survival. A Black woman rhetorical critic locates self and violates the space of otherness through an African-American women's rhetorical tradition that endorses an ethic of care, dialogue for a meaning-making partnership, and a vision of unity in humanity. Hence, a Black feminist approach to rhetorical criticism celebrates the theoretical significance of the “ordinariness of everyday life” to reveal Black women's ways of crafting identities within an oppressive, socially-constructed reality.
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U2 - 10.1080/07491409.1998.10162414
DO - 10.1080/07491409.1998.10162414
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002390350
SN - 0749-1409
VL - 21
SP - 77
EP - 90
JO - Women's Studies in Communication
JF - Women's Studies in Communication
IS - 1
ER -