The paradigm of constricted potentiality does not provide a space for Invitational Rhetoric therefore, to engage in that rhetoric one must use Invitational Rhetorical tactics. The success of this alternative rhetoric as a dialogue can occur when the rhetorical space is identified within the paradigm of constructed potentiality.
This alternative feminist rhetoric encourages transformation through dialogue and non-coercive speech acts. Griffin’s definition of Invitational Rhetoric is restricted when the rhetorical space does not adhere to the feminist principles of equality, immanent value, and self-determination, which undergird the Invitational Rhetorical theory. Lozano (Creator) Institution Appalachian State University (ASU ) Web Site: Advisor Georgia RhoadesĪbstract: Karen A. To this we dedicate our lives.“There is a Place Set For You at Our Table, if You Will Choose to Accept tt”: An Invitational Rhetorical Analysis of Starhawk’s The Fifth Sacred Thing ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document) Victoria I. To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices.
To honor the sacred is to make love possible. To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.Īll people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. no one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others.
To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves became the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression.
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