Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas /

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

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 i...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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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

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