Toward Death and Violence – Rhetorical and Creative Potential; a reader’s text
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death, violence, creative, writing, politics, political, rhetoric, rhetorical, truth, love, power, binary, reductive binaries, binary opposition, geopolitical, hegemony, freedom, colonialism, oppression, Other, Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, Helene Cixous,Abstract
I wrote this essay for readers, hoping to provoke, inspire, enrage and enjoy. Death and violence have been painful and productive forces in my life, and specifically in my writing. In this essay I share some of these experiences and relate them directly to writing, as well as public, political, rhetorical, and historical topics. My desire is to affect personal and public reflection, and to display rhetorical agency in both spheres, thus demonstrating that such divisions, and most if not all binaries, are social constructs that beg for challenge.Downloads
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2009-04-08
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