Balancing Mystery and Identification: Dolores Huerta's Shifting Transcendent Persona

Doss, Erin F.; Jensen, Robin E.

doi:10.1080/00335630.2013.833667

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“…Recent scholarship on rhetorical persona emphasizes the potential for varied, even "contradictory elements" of a persona to balance a rhetor's proximity to and distance from an audience. 12 Our work similarly foregrounds apparently contradictory features of a hybrid persona but interprets their function as a complex response to memory places. Responding to a place as a pilgrim and responding to a place as a critic are distinctively different, sometimes oppositional, but it is in the blending of the two that the dynamics of Dickinson's multifaceted response to places of memory are made manifest.…”

Section: The Pilgrim-critic In Places Of Memorymentioning

confidence: 94%

A Pilgrim-Critic at Places of Public Memory: Anna Dickinson's Southern Tour of 1875

VanderHaagen

Ray²

2014

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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This essay examines accounts of visits to Civil War prison sites, cemeteries, and battlefields that were generated by the popular speaker Anna E. Dickinson during an 1875 lecture tour of Southern states. An ardent Unionist, Dickinson visited places that she believed to exemplify Union sacrifice and Confederate wrongdoing. We analyze her accounts-captured in letters to her mother-in order to understand how this rhetorically skilled public figure used these visits as opportunities for invention and interpretation, generating textual responses oriented toward public memory-making. We argue that her letters enact what we call a pilgrim-critic persona, which both demonstrates an affective connection to places and undertakes a critical investigation of what happened there. Employing the concept of the pilgrim-critic enables this analysis to contribute to rhetorical studies of public memory by highlighting the inventional resources used when visitors interpret their experiences of memory places.

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Section: The Pilgrim-critic In Places Of Memorymentioning

confidence: 94%