{"id":36,"date":"2025-08-12T20:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/historyofrhetoric\/?p=36"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:46:31","slug":"chapter-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/historyofrhetoric\/chapter-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rhetoric and Postmodernity  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chapter Ten<\/strong> begins by defining postmodernism\u2019s key features and then linking those features to rhetorical theory. The chapter uses Afrocentric rhetoric, media, and protest rhetoric to illustrate how postmodern thought affirms rhetoric\u2019s value. It then uses Kenneth Burke to bridge modernism to postmodernism. Mikhail Bakhtin, Wayne Booth, and Michel Foucault will be used to show how discourse can spark new approaches to theorizing everyday language. The chapter then turns to queer theory as a vivid application of postmodernism\u2019s social construction thesis to gender and sexual identity before closing by discussing Jacques Derrida\u2019s contribution to postmodern rhetorical theory. Feminist theories are explored, as rhetoricians such as Sally Miller Gearhart and Sonja Foss interrogate traditionally male sources of knowledge and power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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