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- Circuitry in Motion: Rhetoric(al) Moves in YouTube's Archive
- This article discusses rhetorical moves in YouTube's archive. The rhetorical effects of YouTube may be usefully demonstrated by looking briefly at the effects of YouTube on the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. Whether YouTube videos invigorated campaigns or damned them, it is clear from the 2008 campaign that YouTube videos have come to play a significant role in authorizing arguments in American culture. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146584/
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1854 "Address to the Legislature of New York" and the Paradox of Social Reform Rhetoric
- This article discusses Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1854 "Address to the Legislature of New York." Elizabeth Cady Stanton is widely regarded as one of the most important women's rights orators of the nineteenth century. She is credited with opening new rhetorical spaces for women through brilliant rhetorical appeals. In her 1854 speech to the Legislature of New York, however, her brilliant rhetorical appeals were also appeals to the racist, classist, and paternalistic biases of her white male audience. A paradox of social reform is the need to simultaneously assert difference and sameness with the dominant classes, and Cady Stanton's efforts to negotiate this paradox ultimately reinforced the social hierarchy she hoped to undermine. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146585/
- Joseph Conrad: The Question of Racism and Representation of Muslims in his Malayan Works
- In this paper, the author takes the discussion of Joseph Conrad's alleged racism beyond The Heart of Darkness and highlights the importance of Conrad's Muslim characteristics in his Malay novels. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146568/
- Neoliberal Dispositif and the Rise of Fundamentalism: The Case of Pakistan
- This article discusses neoliberal dispositif and the rise of fundamentalism. While developmental theorists rely heavily on analysis of macro and micro economic theories and developmental sequencing, not much attention is paid to the undeniable linkage between the post-seventies liberalization of global economies and the rise of different kinds of religious fundamentalism. This article suggests that there is a strong connection between neoliberal economics and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. The rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan can be directly linked to the insertion of performative religious acts, predominantly Islamic, into the national public sphere during the rule of Zia-ul-Haq. Since that time, the public sphere in Pakistan has been increasingly Islamized, and the space of minorities within the public sphere has constantly diminished. Furthermore, this rise of fundamentalism is inextricably linked with the deregulation policies adopted for Pakistan. Thus, as the state fails in its redemptive functions, the private religious charities encroach upon the civic functions of the state, which enables such entities to shape and imbue the public consciousness of their beneficiaries with an exclusivist and chauvinistic view of the world. The fundamentalist Islamic ideologies, that of the Taliban for example, must posit a threatening "other" in order to mobilize support and legitimate their own view of the nation; In most cases, minorities become an easy target for this process of othering. In case of the Taliban, the same principles of exclusion are also extended to various Muslims sects that may not conform to the purist view of religion espoused by the Taliban. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146563/
- A Problem of Publics and the Curious Case at Texas
- This article discusses a problem of publics and the curious case of Texas. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc152459/
- The Rhetoric of Democracy and War on Terror: The Case of Pakistan
- This article discusses the rhetoric of democracy on the war on terror. It offers a brief analysis of United States (U.S.) policy toward Pakistan during the last days of General Pervez Husharraf's unconstitutional regime. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146590/
- Salman Rushdie: Reading the Postcolonial Texts in the Era of Empire
- This article discusses Salman Rushdie and reading the postcolonial texts in the era of empire. Using the first three novels of Salman Rushdie, this essay articulates a different conceptual framework for reading the postcolonial texts. It is a known fact that in most metropolitan readings of the global periphery, the text is made to stand in for an entire culture. Inundation, a technique introduced in this essay, ensures a more complex reading by inserting silenced knowledge and histories in our reading to challenge any reductive representations of the global periphery. An inundated text, the author suggests, becomes a better tool in teaching the complexities of the postcolony to the metropolitan audiences, while also taking the reader beyond the politics of representation. It is hoped that this essay will invite other scholars to expand on this concept (inundation), for a new mode of reading is absolutely necessary in the politically charged world of today's empire. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146589/