Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
te-ixtli: The “Other Face” of the Americas....Pages 1-13
Rhetoric of the First “Indians”: The Taínos of the Second Voyage of Columbus....Pages 15-20
Imperialist Rhetorics in Puerto Rican Nationalist Narratives....Pages 21-39
Spanish Scripts Colonize the Image: Inca Visual Rhetorics....Pages 41-67
Translating Nahua Rhetoric: Sahagún’s Nahua Subjects in Colonial Mexico....Pages 69-87
Practicing Methods in Ancient Cultural Rhetorics: Uncovering Rhetorical Action in Moche Burial Rituals....Pages 89-116
Rhetoric and Resistance in Hawai’i: How Silenced Voices Speak Out in Colonial Contexts....Pages 117-141
Rhetoric, Interrupted: La Malinche and Nepantlisma....Pages 143-151
In Search of the Invisible World: Uncovering Mesoamerican Rhetoric in Contemporary Mexico....Pages 153-167
“When They Awaken”: Indigeneity, Miscegenation, and Anticolonial Visuality....Pages 169-195
Spirit Glyphs: Reimagining Art and Artist in the Work of Chicana Tlamatinime....Pages 197-226
Los Puentes Stories: The Rhetorical Realities of Electronic Literacy Sponsors and Gateways on the U.S.-Mexico Border from 1920 to 2001....Pages 227-253
Las Cobijas/The Blankets....Pages 255-257
Back Matter....Pages 259-270