Item Details

title

Counter-Insurgency, Liberalism, & the Transmogrification of Radical Meaning

author

Brough, Taylor Jade

abstract

Privilege, intersectionality, and “the personal is political” are the sites of liberalism’s contemporary counterinsurgency, which occurs through the transmogrification of radical meaning. In this thesis, I argue that rhetoricians presently lack a method to adequately theorize racial capitalism and the nation-state form as they shift and destabilize radical terminologies through introducing the politics of representation via multiculturalism and technologies of governance. I intervene in rhetoric’s conceptualization of the public and private spheres, the rhetorical situation, and the artifact through the introduction of what I term the racial-sexual mark of enunciation, an analytic that attempts to thoroughly theorize Black and Native positionalities against the Settler/Master monopoly on the proper use of speech.

subject

intersectionality

liberalism

privilege

rhetoric

the personal is political

contributor

Von Burg, Alessandra (committee chair)

Von Burg, Alessandra (committee member)

Gill, Rebecca (committee member)

Reid-Brinkley, Shanara R (committee member)

date

2020-05-29T08:36:13Z (accessioned)

2020-05-29T08:36:13Z (available)

2020 (issued)

degree

Communication (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/96863 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis