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Journal of Applied Communication Research, Jun 1, 1991
... NY: Harper & Brothers. (Reprinted from Vital Speeches of the Day, 1936, 2, 327-328). Eagl... more ... NY: Harper & Brothers. (Reprinted from Vital Speeches of the Day, 1936, 2, 327-328). Eagleton, T. (1983). Literary theory.Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ... Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Dublin, Ireland. Monaghan, P. (1991, February 20). ...
Critical Studies in Media Communication, Sep 1, 2001
Journal of Communication, Mar 1, 1989
Communication Monographs, Mar 1, 1988
SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, May 15, 2012
Argumentation and advocacy, Sep 1, 1988
Rhetoric and public affairs, 2016
Annals of the International Communication Association, 1982
SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, 1993
Intercultural Memories: Contesting Places, Spaces, and Stories, 2021
In recent years American communltles have been compelled to confront their histories of race viol... more In recent years American communltles have been compelled to confront their histories of race violence and race lynching. 2 Situated within the ten sions of remembrance and forgetting, the collective will to confront these pasts is fraught with challenge, and calls to confront the legacies of white on-black race violence are often met with deep ambivalence. Some fear that commemoration will "produce nothing but anguish, grief, and a righteous, desperate rage that only risks fueling more violence." Others worry that instead of producing "a reconciled future, memories of victimization" will only exacerbate "social division and conflict" (Simon, Rosenberg & Eppert, 2000, p. 1). In this chapter, we examine one call to remembrance through the annual reenactment of the 1946 lynching of four African Americans in Walton County, Georgia. 3 Our research at the Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment concerns one iteration by a coalition formed from two communities of memory-one white, cosmopolitan, financially secure, feminist, and reli giously and politically progressive, and one black, rural, of modest economic
Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 2016
Annals of the International Communication Association, 1982
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2016
Encountering each other’s scholarship brought us together to work on this special issue with the ... more Encountering each other’s scholarship brought us together to work on this special issue with the theme of “Memory, Culture, and Difference.” While Jola was working on an essay about the representation of Polish Jews in contemporary Poland (Drzewiecka, 2014), she found resonance in Peter and Susan’s work on the conflicting readings offered by different communities of memory in cinematic representations of racial violence (Owen & Ehrenhaus, 2010). Each of us has had the experience of working at the intersections of memory, culture and difference. Each has felt the need to look beyond the established paradigms of media studies, rhetorical studies and intercultural studies to frame and explicate the complexities we encountered in our case studies of communicative practices. For example, we have written about the politics of memory in the struggle to erase Jews from the master narrative of Polish national identity (Drzewiecka, 2014), and in the contested performance of memory resistance in Monroe, GA, site of the last mass lynching in the United States (Owen & Ehrenhaus, 2014). In these projects, we were assisted by journal editors and reviewers who helped us explore relationships across paradigms of knowledge production. From these experiences, we have come to recognize the value in memory studies of transcending conventional disciplinary boundaries, and of highlighting the discursive, visual, and performative construction of memory as a consequential focus of communication study. Ours is not the first call to transcend conventional boundaries of inquiry in intercultural communication. In their 1999 essay, “Thinking Dialectically about Intercultural Communication,” Judith Martin and Thomas Nakayama (1999) invited intercultural scholars to consider the relationships between the assumptions that guided their own scholarly endeavors, and the production of knowledge in other paradigms. They proposed “a dialectic approach that... offers new ways to conceptualize and study intercultural communication” (p. 1) as a corrective to the shortcomings that they noted in intercultural communication research. Two of their dialectics are especially germane to incorporating “memory” into studies of “culture” and “difference.” Their “past/history–present/future” dialectic draws our attention to the importance of a community’s lived and inherited history, and to the rhetorical and ideological framing of the past, as shared memory. Their “privilege–disadvantage” dialectic draws our attention to parties’ differential access to power in intercultural relations—that is, to the ability to control both material and symbolic resources.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 15295038909366734, May 18, 2009
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2004
... This essay locates the performance of ritual lynching within the white Christian Evangelical ... more ... This essay locates the performance of ritual lynching within the white Christian Evangelical worldview that predominated among members of the white supremacist community responsible for lynching African-Americans. ... Ritual Lynching as Christian Evangelical Performance ...
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2014
This essay offers a close reading of the 2008 reenactment of the 1946 Moore's Ford Lynching o... more This essay offers a close reading of the 2008 reenactment of the 1946 Moore's Ford Lynching of four African Americans in Walton County, Georgia. Throughout this fieldwork, we were ethnographically positioned as co-performative witnesses, both “a part of” and “apart from,” mirroring the tensions between the intellectual remove of much rhetorical scholarship and the embodied engagement and understanding of performance studies. A complex and sophisticated repertoire of invention shared by the coalition of activists who planned and staged the performance enabled reenactors to mobilize their bodies to construct the ineffability of traumatic memory, challenge official accounts of the lynching, and advocate hope and healing for the future. Through the “cross-temporal slippage” of reenactment, all in attendance were invited to occupy the subject location of moral witness. A fracture in the coalition along lines of racial privilege/subordination and gender politics revealed the differential reliance upon archival and embodied knowledge, again mirroring the tensions that bind rhetoric and performance.
Journal of Communication, 1989
Journal of Applied Communication Research, Jun 1, 1991
... NY: Harper & Brothers. (Reprinted from Vital Speeches of the Day, 1936, 2, 327-328). Eagl... more ... NY: Harper & Brothers. (Reprinted from Vital Speeches of the Day, 1936, 2, 327-328). Eagleton, T. (1983). Literary theory.Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ... Paper presented at the meeting of the International Communication Association, Dublin, Ireland. Monaghan, P. (1991, February 20). ...
Critical Studies in Media Communication, Sep 1, 2001
Journal of Communication, Mar 1, 1989
Communication Monographs, Mar 1, 1988
SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, May 15, 2012
Argumentation and advocacy, Sep 1, 1988
Rhetoric and public affairs, 2016
Annals of the International Communication Association, 1982
SAGE Publications, Inc. eBooks, 1993
Intercultural Memories: Contesting Places, Spaces, and Stories, 2021
In recent years American communltles have been compelled to confront their histories of race viol... more In recent years American communltles have been compelled to confront their histories of race violence and race lynching. 2 Situated within the ten sions of remembrance and forgetting, the collective will to confront these pasts is fraught with challenge, and calls to confront the legacies of white on-black race violence are often met with deep ambivalence. Some fear that commemoration will "produce nothing but anguish, grief, and a righteous, desperate rage that only risks fueling more violence." Others worry that instead of producing "a reconciled future, memories of victimization" will only exacerbate "social division and conflict" (Simon, Rosenberg & Eppert, 2000, p. 1). In this chapter, we examine one call to remembrance through the annual reenactment of the 1946 lynching of four African Americans in Walton County, Georgia. 3 Our research at the Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment concerns one iteration by a coalition formed from two communities of memory-one white, cosmopolitan, financially secure, feminist, and reli giously and politically progressive, and one black, rural, of modest economic
Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 2016
Annals of the International Communication Association, 1982
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2016
Encountering each other’s scholarship brought us together to work on this special issue with the ... more Encountering each other’s scholarship brought us together to work on this special issue with the theme of “Memory, Culture, and Difference.” While Jola was working on an essay about the representation of Polish Jews in contemporary Poland (Drzewiecka, 2014), she found resonance in Peter and Susan’s work on the conflicting readings offered by different communities of memory in cinematic representations of racial violence (Owen & Ehrenhaus, 2010). Each of us has had the experience of working at the intersections of memory, culture and difference. Each has felt the need to look beyond the established paradigms of media studies, rhetorical studies and intercultural studies to frame and explicate the complexities we encountered in our case studies of communicative practices. For example, we have written about the politics of memory in the struggle to erase Jews from the master narrative of Polish national identity (Drzewiecka, 2014), and in the contested performance of memory resistance in Monroe, GA, site of the last mass lynching in the United States (Owen & Ehrenhaus, 2014). In these projects, we were assisted by journal editors and reviewers who helped us explore relationships across paradigms of knowledge production. From these experiences, we have come to recognize the value in memory studies of transcending conventional disciplinary boundaries, and of highlighting the discursive, visual, and performative construction of memory as a consequential focus of communication study. Ours is not the first call to transcend conventional boundaries of inquiry in intercultural communication. In their 1999 essay, “Thinking Dialectically about Intercultural Communication,” Judith Martin and Thomas Nakayama (1999) invited intercultural scholars to consider the relationships between the assumptions that guided their own scholarly endeavors, and the production of knowledge in other paradigms. They proposed “a dialectic approach that... offers new ways to conceptualize and study intercultural communication” (p. 1) as a corrective to the shortcomings that they noted in intercultural communication research. Two of their dialectics are especially germane to incorporating “memory” into studies of “culture” and “difference.” Their “past/history–present/future” dialectic draws our attention to the importance of a community’s lived and inherited history, and to the rhetorical and ideological framing of the past, as shared memory. Their “privilege–disadvantage” dialectic draws our attention to parties’ differential access to power in intercultural relations—that is, to the ability to control both material and symbolic resources.
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 15295038909366734, May 18, 2009
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2004
... This essay locates the performance of ritual lynching within the white Christian Evangelical ... more ... This essay locates the performance of ritual lynching within the white Christian Evangelical worldview that predominated among members of the white supremacist community responsible for lynching African-Americans. ... Ritual Lynching as Christian Evangelical Performance ...
Text and Performance Quarterly, 2014
This essay offers a close reading of the 2008 reenactment of the 1946 Moore's Ford Lynching o... more This essay offers a close reading of the 2008 reenactment of the 1946 Moore's Ford Lynching of four African Americans in Walton County, Georgia. Throughout this fieldwork, we were ethnographically positioned as co-performative witnesses, both “a part of” and “apart from,” mirroring the tensions between the intellectual remove of much rhetorical scholarship and the embodied engagement and understanding of performance studies. A complex and sophisticated repertoire of invention shared by the coalition of activists who planned and staged the performance enabled reenactors to mobilize their bodies to construct the ineffability of traumatic memory, challenge official accounts of the lynching, and advocate hope and healing for the future. Through the “cross-temporal slippage” of reenactment, all in attendance were invited to occupy the subject location of moral witness. A fracture in the coalition along lines of racial privilege/subordination and gender politics revealed the differential reliance upon archival and embodied knowledge, again mirroring the tensions that bind rhetoric and performance.
Journal of Communication, 1989