[HERITAGE-LIST] CFP: A Brief History of Rhetoric in the Americas: 3113 BCE to 2012 CE

[Damian Patrick Baca]

A Brief History of Rhetoric in the Americas: 3113 BCE to 2012 CE 

            Damián Baca & Victor Villanueva, editors 

Call for Contributors 

Focusing on rhetoric outside of the dominating Greco-Latin canon, this 
collection will examine rhetorical/linguistic practices and traditions of 
the indigenous pre-Columbian past and their legacies in the global American 
present as well as the rhetorical legacies wrought by other colonized 
peoples in the Americas. The timeline referenced in our title, for example, 
follows the Epi-Olmec and Maya calendar, thereby evoking indigenous 
chronologies and cosmologies that we hope our contributors will engage. The 
purpose of this collection will be to look to the past and present 
simultaneously, as many of these rhetorics and languages are in use today in 
various contemporary configurations. 

Submissions might address issues of language revitalization, historiography, 
linguistic migrations, cartography, multiple writing systems, material 
culture, the impact of Western expansion and global-colonial power on 
rhetorical and linguistic practices, etc. 

We are especially interested in essays dealing with rhetorical/linguistic 
traditions, voices, audiences and contexts in North American,  
Mesoamerica/Anahuac/Mexico, Sub-Arctic, Caribbean Islands/Arawak/Antilles, 
Austronesia (Philippine, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islands), and other 
"American" colonial peripheries. 

In particular, we invite submissions that focus on pictographic, 
ideographic, logographic, iconographic, kinetic, material, and so-called 
"visual" rhetorics in the Americas, and/or those that root their 
theoretical/methodological approaches in rhetorics that do not derive from 
Sumerian or Egyptian (i.e.: Greco-Latin) traditions. 

Submissions Process
Please send a 250-500 word abstract of your contribution to Damián Baca via 
e-mail by May 3, 2008. 

If your contribution is accepted for the volume, we anticipate a deadline of 
August 1, 2008 for full manuscripts (no longer than 10,000 words including 
notes and reference matter). 

Contact Information
Damián Baca, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Rhetoric & Writing
Chicano-Latino Studies
baca at msu.edu
Michigan State University