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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Jones Royster\, "Social Circulation and Sojourner Trut
 h's 'Ain't I a Woman Speech"
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DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Jones Royster\, Ohio State University\, presents h
 er research at the CWS Colloquium Series. In their collaborative work on
  feminist rhetorical inquiry\, Gesa E. Kirsch and Jacqueline J. Royster 
 focus on four terms of engagement: the use of critical imagination\, str
 ategic contemplation\, social circulation\, and linkages between local a
 nd global interests.  In this presentation\, Royster draws attention to 
 "social circulation\," a notion that invokes connections among past\, pr
 esent and future in the sense that rhetorical actions in the overlapping
  circles in which women travel\, live\, and work are carried on or modif
 ied from one circle to the next\, from one generation to the next.  By t
 aking a closer look at such processes\, we are able to see how they set 
 in motion the idea that rhetoric is evolutionary\, not just revolutionar
 y.  The use\, then\, of social circulation as a feminist practice helps 
 to bring visibility to the extent to which women's legacies of thought a
 nd action are mediated through the complexities of ever-evolving persona
 l\, social\, and political relationships and agenda and through the dyna
 mic use and re-use of rhetorical moments for a range of rhetorical purpo
 ses.To illustrate this analytical approach\, Royster will look again at 
 the 1851 speech\, popularly known as the 'Ain't I a Woman' speech\, made
  by Sojourner Truth at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron Ohio\, to 
 show how it has functioned over time to power and periodically re-charge
  a social movement.
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CATEGORIES:Colloq Series
CONTACT:Teresa Bertram 217-333-3251
ORGANIZER:tbertram@illinois.edu
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