Acknowledgments
Introduction: Moving Beyond Traditions: Exploring the Need for "Alternative Rhetorics"
LAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE AND SIBYLLE GRUBER
PART I: CHANGING HISTORIES, CHANGING LIVES: REVISITING THE RHETORICAL TRADITION
1. Remembering the Rhetorics of Women: The Case of Jane Lead
CATHERINE F. SMITH
2. Multivocal Midwife: The Writing Teacher as Rhetor
PHYLLIS MENTZELL RYDER, VALENTINA M. ABORDONADO, BARABRA HEIFFERON, AND DUANE H. ROEN
3. "Wooden Shoes and Mantle Clocks": Letter Writing as a Rhetorical Forum for the Transforming Immigrant Identity
KATHLEEN A. DEHAAN
PART II: VIRTUAL REALITY, REAL VIRTUALITY: EXPLORING THE MULTIPLE RHETORICS OF CYBERSPACE
4. The Rhetorics of Three Women Activist Groups on the Web: Building and Transforming Communities
SIBYLLE GRUBER
5. Authority and Credibility: Classical Rhetoric, the Internet, and the Teaching of Techno-Ethos
THERESA ENOS AND SHANE BORROWMAN
6. Like a Cyborg Cassandra: The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Internet's Misbegotten Rhetorical Situation
JACQUELINE J. LAMBIASE
7. @ home among the .coms: Virtual Rhetoric in the Agora of the Web
JOHN B. KILLORAN
PART III: RESISTING LABELS, PROMOTING CHANGE: TAKING A NEW LOOK AT RHETORICS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE AND FILM
8. Geographies of Resistance: Rhetorics of Race and Mobility in Arna Bontemps' Sad-Faced Boy (1937)
LAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE
9. Visual Rhetorics and Classroom Practices: Negotiating "Contact Zones" in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust
ANTHONY J. MICHEL
10. Audience in Afrocentric Rhetoric: Promoting Huam Agency and Social Change
DANIEL F. COLLINS
PART IV: OTHER PEOPLE, OTHER CUSTOMS: DEFYING TRADITIONAL RHETORICS OF GENDER AND CLASS IN ASIAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES
11. Rewriting the Butterfly Story: Tricksterism in Onoto Watanna's A Japanese Nightengale and Sui Sin Far's "The Smuggling
of Tie Co"
HUINING OUYANG
12. The Alternative Feminist Discourse of Post-Mao Chinese Writers: A Perspective from the Rhetorical Situation
HUI WU
13. When Worlds Collide: Rhetorics of Profit, Rhetorics of Loss in Chinese Culture
JEFF SCHONBERG
Contirbutors
Index