Rhetoric on the Margins of the Second Wave: Feminism, Cultural Memory, and the Transformation of the Political

"The displacement of radical forms of women's political practices necessitates not the ""recovery"" of certain histories, but the very ""creation"" of histories which reconsider the meaning of ""eventfulness"" and change. By examining the anomalous rhetorical practices and their infectious intensities, new conceptions of feminism's pasts can be created which have implications for our understanding of historical change, eventfulness, and contemporary feminist discursive practices. Methodologically, I am concerned with what I term ""minor rhetorics,"" following Deleuze and Guattari's work on ""minor literature."" ""Minor rhetorics"" and the anomalous practices associated with them are never accounted for in recent molar histories of feminism, even though they exerted significant force within feminism."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Deem, Melissa D.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar

• Political Science, General

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9912217

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87561