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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466901203321

Autore

Graban Tarez Samra

Titolo

Women's irony : rewriting feminist rhetorical histories / / Tarez Samra Graban

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8093-3419-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms

Disciplina

809/.89287

Soggetti

Feminism and literature

Irony in literature

Feminist theory

Feminist literature - History

Women and literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION: Why an Irony Paradigm for Feminist Historiography, and Why Now?""; ""1. ON WOMEN AND AGENCY: Ironizing Together""; ""2. ON LANGUAGE AND HISTORY: Eliding Dichotomies""; ""3. ON LOCATION AND MEMORY: Challenging Ethos""; ""4. FREEING THE ARCHON""; ""5. TOWARD AN IRONY PARADIGM""; ""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX""; ""Author Biography""; ""Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms""; ""Other Books in the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series""; ""Back Cover""

Sommario/riassunto

In "Women's Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories," author Tarez Samra Graban synthesizes three decades of scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical model for feminist rhetorical historiography that is not linked to humor, lying, or intention. Graban challenges critical methods in rhetoric, asking scholars in rhetoric and its related disciplines to rethink how they produce historical knowledge and use archives to recover women's performances in political situations. --