ENGL 4020 Rhetorical Theory as Live/d Practice (Fall 2013)

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In Up the Yangtze , hegemony, alterity, and diaspora all play a role in the film in light of representation. These words can descr...

Chang's documentary seems to address a multitude of conceptual nuances we've experienced in this unit of representation, the most re...

Although I was unable to attend the inclass screening, I watched Up the Yangtze on my own and was very interested in the material and info...

In America we come to expect a certain level of political or authoritative involvement when things get out of control or start to collapse....

The documentary Up the Yangtze, gives insight on the dam that was built in China. Although this dam was supposed to be seen as something po...

Chang constructs his documentary for mass appeal. Really, any group of people interested in cultural change, from westerners to Chinese nati...

I must say that I really enjoyed this documentary. It really opened my eyes to an unfamiliar type of struggle and allowed me to see that eve...

I feel like hegemony was really present in the film. I saw hegemony because I felt like one could clearly see the power struggle going on. T...

I see Anna Julia Cooper as being a phenomenal race theorist. In A Voice From the South , Cooper proposes two types of authors in general—wit...

I can definitely see how racism fits perfectly into the realm of terministic screens.  The influence of past experiences and ideology of a p...

Cooper & Johnson both speak for their respective cultural groups when they claim misrepresentation by the majority. Through literature ...

Gates’  Writing “Race” and the Difference It Makes, addresses the importance of the topic of the “other.” I found this article interesting ...

Cooper and Johnson both talk about their respective races and how they are always misrepresented in European literature.  I do not view them...

Let's first come to an understanding that Gates defines race in literature as merely a subcategory. I think it's evident that Gates ...