Compelled to Write: Alternative Rhetoric in Theory and Practice

Contents

CO NTENTS Acknowledgments 1 1 Defining Alternative Rhetoric: Embracing Intersectionality and Owning Opacity 3 Interchapter: Piano Lessons 39 2 Sarah Grimké: Breaking the Bonds of Womanhood 42 Interchapter: Jumper Cables and Double Consciousness as a Habit of Mind 67 3 Frederick Douglass: Taking an Ell to Claim Humanity 72 Interchapter: Pickles 115 4 Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands and Fences; Literacy and Rhetoric 118 Interchapter: The Light of the World 159 5 David Sedaris: Expanding Epideictic—A Rhetoric of Indirection 162 Interchapter: Day Four in Paris 202 6 Alternative Rhetoric and Marked Writing 205 Interchapter: God Abhors You 242 References 244 Index 250 About the Author 256 ...