“Women historically linked to Africa have been speaking in public arenas, writing, and thinking critically about writing and themselves as writers for many, many centuries. A challenge for rhetorical history, then, is to imagine the possibility, even the likelihood, of a comparable trajectory for the participation of women of African descent in rhetorical history, theory, and performance as well. When we establish a less Western point of view, based on the idea that humans have the capacity to use language resources well wherever they happen to reside, how far-fetched can such a possibility really be?”
Jacqueline Jones Royster, “Disciplinary Landscaping , or Contemporary Challenges in the History of Rhetoric” (2003)
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