Rhetorics of the Americas

Description:

This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The contributors in this collection offer glimpses of what those indigenous rhetorics might have looked like and how their influences remainches The reader is invivted to recognize "the invention of the Americas," providing other ways to contemplate material life prior to contemporary capitalism, telling us about the global from long ago to current global capitalism. This book is the drop that will ripple, creating new lines of inquiry into language use within the Americas and the legacies of genocide, conquest, and cultural survival.

subjects: Rhetoric,  Indians of North America,  Social aspects,  Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature,  Indians of South America,  Language and culture,  Languages,  Discourse analysis,  Persuasion (Rhetoric),  Indians of Central America,  Political aspects,  History,  Indians of central america, languages,  Indians of north america, languages,  Indians of south america, languages,  Rhetorik,  LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES,  Composition & Creative Writing,  REFERENCE,  Writing Skills