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FDU PRESS
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| Scholarly Review |
 | Agency in the Margins
ISBN# 9780838642146
Reviewed by: T.B. Dykeman, formerly, Fairfield University
Choice, August 2010 |
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Stockdell-Giesler (English, University of Tampa) has brought together 12 essays that focus on the powerful rhetoric of otherness -- otherness being, for example, "slaves" to turpentine manufacturing in Florida, Italian immigrants, pentacostals, ecofeminists, and prisoners. The question asked is how those outside the traditional rhetorical spaces of power become agents of change. The answer is that they first establish the space to give themselves the legitimacy to speak. Sometimes speaking involves ingenious lying and subversive metaphors; other times it means historical remembering through intellectual bricolage or using literacy as salvation. These outsiders are empowered by their own rhetoric. The essays demonstrate that in garnering new audiences and new strategies, this rhetoric also defines new boundaries of rhetoric. It will be a valuable resource for students of writing, journalism, and sociology. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper- division undergraduates.
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