Quote: "Rhetorical sovereignty is the inherent right and ability of peoples to determine their own communicative needs and desires in this pursuit, to decide for themselves the goals, modes, styles, and languages of public discourse."
Question: How does this go against the Native American relationship with the white men?
I feel like this quote goes against the relationship that Native Americans and white men have because of the remapping of their history and having the white men overpower the history of Native Americans and their culture. For example, in the case of rhetoric, the written word was something that was just given to the Native Americans without the attempt of them to actually change things and make it their own. This whole theory goes against the rhetorical sovereignty.
ReplyDeleteI think the idea of sovereignty refers to respecting other's culture by allowing Natives to keep their own language and culture in their writing and by not forcing them to assimilate or attempting to form other people's cultures for them. This goes against Native Americans relationships with white men because by only allowing them to have their own culture in certain areas (similar to Trinh's thoughts on separate development), the Native Americans were/are forced to conform to white man's society and comply with their rules as soon as they step out of the borders white men set up for them.
ReplyDeleteThis completely goes against the Native American's relationship with the white men because the Native American's were literally forced to leave their land and were unable to decide what they wanted to do, because it was already decided for them. Their inherent rights were stripped of them once the white men visited.
ReplyDeleteThis idea of rhetorical sovereignty describes how one has the ability to establish your own goals and needs; your own ways and customs. In this case, Native Americans did not have rhetorical sovereignty. They were stripped of every aspect of culture by white men. Their right was deprived. So that quote definitely goes against what really happened in history/the relationship between whites and natives.
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