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Towards A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Caribbean Rhetoric: African Guyanese Women from the Village of Buxton Transforming Oral History

Baird, Pauline Felicia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458317632

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2016, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, English (Rhetoric and Writing) PhD.
In my project, "Towards a Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Caribbean Rhetoric: African Guyanese Women from the Village of Buxton Transforming Oral History,"I build a Cultural Rhetorics approach by listening to the stories of a group of African Guyanese women from the village of Buxton (Buxtonians). I obtained these stories from engaging in a long-term oral history research project where I understand my participants to be invested in telling their stories to teach the current and future generations of Buxtonians. I build this approach by using a collaborative and communal methodology of asking Wah De Story Seh? This methodology provides a framework for understanding the women's strategies in history-making as distinctively Caribbean rhetoric. It is crucial for my project to mark these women's strategies as Caribbean rhetoric because they negotiate their oral histories and identities by consciously and unconsciously connecting to an African ancestral heritage of formerly enslaved Africans in Guyana. In my project, I enact story as methodology to understand how the rhetorical strategies of the Buxtonian women make oral histories and by so doing, I examine the relationship between rhetoric, knowledge, and power.
Andrea Riley-Mukavetz, Ph.D (Advisor)
Sue Carter Wood, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Lee Nickoson, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Alberto Gonzalez, Ph.D (Committee Member)
165 p.
African Studies; Black History; Black Studies; Caribbean Literature; Caribbean Studies; Composition; Cultural Anthropology; Gender Studies; History; Literacy; Pedagogy
Caribbean Rhetoric; Buxton; Cultural Rhetorics; Oral History; African Guyanese women; diaspora; conversational cultural rhetorics; Buxton People Stop Train; Story-making; story as methodology; listening; asking methodology; Rural; Storytelling

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  • Baird, P. F. (2016). Towards A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Caribbean Rhetoric: African Guyanese Women from the Village of Buxton Transforming Oral History [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458317632

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Baird, Pauline. Towards A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Caribbean Rhetoric: African Guyanese Women from the Village of Buxton Transforming Oral History . 2016. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458317632.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Baird, Pauline. "Towards A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Caribbean Rhetoric: African Guyanese Women from the Village of Buxton Transforming Oral History ." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1458317632

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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