Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-255) and index.
Contents:
The democratic hemisphere / Christa J. Olson -- A strange democracy : rhetoric, posthegemony, and Latinamericanism / Jose Cortez -- Draining the democracy : Donald J. Trump and anti-immigrant rhetoric / Alberto Gonzalez, Amy N. Heuman, and Linsay M. Cramer -- Revisiting the seeming impossibility of migrants as political actors / Rene Agustin de los Santos -- American exceptionalism, baseball diplomacy, and the normalization of US-Cuban relations / Michael L. Butterworth -- Communicating about corruption: Guatemalan rhetorics of corruption / Adriana Angel -- Re/tracing the local grassroots women activists' crafting of rhetorical agency in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico / Clara Eugenia Rojas Blanco -- The peace agreement and the rhetoric of religion on the Colombian plebiscite : religious activism and democracy / Pamela Flores and Nancy R. Gomez -- People, media, and democracy in Brazil : discourses about Lula's oratory in the Brazilian press / Carlos Piovezani -- The farewell speech of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner / Alejandra Vitale -- Spectacular crisis : rhetorics of representation in Venezuela / Abraham Romney.
Summary:
"A collection of essays examining the rhetorics that underlie democratic politics in Latin America and the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
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