Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas / / ed. by Michael L. Butterworth, Nancy R. Gómez, Adriana Angel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Angel, Adriana,; Blanco, Clara Eugenia Rojas,; Butterworth, Michael L.,; Cortez, José,; Cramer, Linsay M.,; De los Santos, René Agustín,; Flores, Pamela,; González, Alberto,; Gómez, Nancy R.,; Heuman, Amy N.,; Olson, Christa J.,; Piovezani, Carlos,; Romney, Abraham,; Vitale, Alejandra,
• HerausgeberIn: Angel, Adriana,; Butterworth, Michael L.,; Gómez, Nancy R.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Democracy is venerated in US political culture, in part because it is our democracy. As a result, we assume that the government and institutions of the United States represent the true and right form of democracy, needed by all. This volume challenges this commonplace belief by putting US politics in the context of the Americas more broadly. Seeking to cultivate conversations among and between the hemispheres, this collection examines local political rhetorics across the Americas. The contributors—scholars of communication from both North and South America—recognize democratic ideals as irreducible to a single national perspective and reflect on the ways social minorities in the Western Hemisphere engage in unique political discourses. Essays consider current rhetorics in the United States on American exceptionalism, immigration, citizenship, and land rights alongside current cultural and political events in Latin America, such as corruption in Guatemala, women’s activism in Ciudad Juárez, representation in Venezuela, and media bias in Brazil. Through a survey of these rhetorics, this volume provides a broad analysis of democracy. It highlights institutional and cultural differences in the Americas and presents a hemispheric democracy that is both more pluralistic and more agonistic than what is believed about the system in the United States.In addition to the editors, the contributors include José Cortez, Linsay M. Cramer, Pamela Flores, Alberto González, Amy N. Heuman, Christa J. Olson, Carlos Piovezani, Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco, Abraham Romney, René Agustín de los Santos, and Alejandra Vitale.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rhetorics of democracy in the Americas -- Part 1 Questioning the Narratives of Democracy Beyond the West -- 1 The democratic hemisphere -- 2 A strange democracy: rhetoric, Posthegemony, and Latinamericanism -- 3 Draining the democracy: Donald J. Ttrump and anti-immigrant rhetoric -- 4 Revisiting the seeming impossibility of migrants as political actors -- 5 American Exceptionalism, baseball diplomacy, and the normalization of us-cuban relations -- Part 2 Problematizing and Reconstructing Democracy in Latin America -- 6 Communicating about corruption: Guatemalan Rhetorics of corruption -- 7 Re/tracing the local grassroots women activists’ crafting of rhetorical agency in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico -- 8 The peace agreement and the rhetoric of religion in the Colombian plebiscite: religious activism and democracy -- 9 People, media, and democracy in Brazil: discourses about Lula’s oratory in the Brazilian press -- 10 The farewell speech of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner -- 11 Spectacular crisis: Rhetorics of representation in Venezuela -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index