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SUMMARY:Gesa Kirsch\, "Strategic Contemplation and Feminist Rhetorical In
 quiry"
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DESCRIPTION:Gesa Kirsch\, Bentley University\, presents her research in a
  talk entitled\, "Strategic Contemplation and Feminist Rhetorical Inquir
 y" at the CWS Colloquium Series.The range and scope of feminist rhetoric
 al studies has increased vastly in recent years.  The most interesting a
 nd unusual research conducted by scholars include studies of rhetorical 
 activities of small town rural women (Charlotte Hogg\, 2006)\; analyses 
 of Virginia mountain women writing to government officials protesting th
 e loss of their homes and the establishment of the Shenandoah National P
 ark (Katrina Powell\, 2007)\; resistant pedagogies developed by nineteen
 th-century women teachers of African American\, Native American\, and Ch
 icano/a students (Jessica Enoch\, 2008)\; rhetorical and literate activi
 ties produced by Japanese Americans imprisoned in Internment camps durin
 g WWII (Gail Okawa\, 2008)\; and alternative sites of rhetorical educati
 onal for African Americans\, such as sewing circles\, religious singing\
 , preaching\, "hush harbors\," and the black press (Shirley Wilson Logan
 \, 2008).These studies provide rich new opportunities for rhetorical res
 earch\, Kirsch argues\, but also raise methodological and ethical questi
 ons such as\, "When we study women of the past\, especially those whose 
 voices have rarely been heard or studied by rhetoricians\, how do we ren
 der their work and lives meaningfully? How do we honor their traditions?
  How do we transport ourselves back to the time and context in which the
 y lived\, knowing full well that is not possible to see things from thei
 r vantage point?  Drawing on her collaborative work with Dr. Jacqueline 
 Jones Royster\, Kirsch explores these questions by examining the notion 
 of "strategic contemplation" as a critical term of engagement.  In doing
  so\, she seeks to re-claim the genre of the "meditation" in current sch
 olarly practice in order to claim strategic contemplation as an importan
 t meditative dimension of scholarly productivity\, especially when tradi
 tional\, more publicly rendered sources of information are in short supp
 ly\, as is often the case with the documentation of women's experiences.
 
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LOCATION:126 GSLIS
CATEGORIES:Colloq Series
CONTACT:Teresa Bertram 217-333-3251
ORGANIZER:tbertram@illinois.edu
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