Hi, folks,
As we look forward to gathering in Spokane for CCCC2024, the Feminist Caucus would like to invite you to join our Wednesday, 4/3, workshop entitled "Feminist Latinx Imagination and Experience Through Testimonio."
As we get closer to CCCC2024 each week, I will send out a reminder about our workshop, and I will highlight one of our speakers.
This week we have the pleasure of introducing Christina V. Cedillo.
Christina V. Cedillo (she/they) is an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Cedillo’s research draws from cultural rhetorics and decolonial theory to focus on embodied rhetorics and rhetorics of embodiment at the intersections of race, gender, and disability. Their work has appeared in College Composition & Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, the Journal for the History of Rhetoric, Composition Studies, and various other journals and edited collections.
Her talk for the workshop is entitled, "Testimonio as a Cultural Genre: Defying Claims of Illegibility by the Dominant Culture."
Here’s a brief description:
This presentation discusses Rigoberta Menchú’s I, Rigoberta Menchú, a testimonio of Guatemala’s "Dirty War," to show how the dominant culture delegitimizes the genre because it defies reading via a colonial rhetorical lens. Employing a collective voice to re-present events affecting entire communities, testimonio does not align with western rhetoric’s notion of a singular rhetor with the presumed authority and space to speak. Thus, detractors like U.S. anthropologist David Stoll have focused more on discrepancies in Menchú’s book rather than the atrocities that the book aims to emphasize.
For more information about registering for Cs, including our workshop please visit this link. We hope to see you in Spokane!
If you’d like to get the word out, please see the attached flyer for email/print distribution use and the zip file with a carousel post for social media platforms.
Best,
Jacki
Jaclyn M. Fiscus-Cannaday (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of English
Florida State University
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