Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rhetorics of democracy in the Americas -- Part 1 Questioning the Narratives of Democracy Beyond the West -- 1 The democratic hemisphere -- 2 A strange democracy: rhetoric, Posthegemony, and Latinamericanism -- 3 Draining the democracy: Donald J. Ttrump and anti-immigrant rhetoric -- 4 Revisiting the seeming impossibility of migrants as political actors -- 5 American Exceptionalism, baseball diplomacy, and the normalization of us-cuban relations -- Part 2 Problematizing and Reconstructing Democracy in Latin America -- 6 Communicating about corruption: Guatemalan Rhetorics of corruption -- 7 Re/tracing the local grassroots women activists' crafting of rhetorical agency in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico -- 8 The peace agreement and the rhetoric of religion in the Colombian plebiscite: religious activism and democracy -- 9 People, media, and democracy in Brazil: discourses about Lula's oratory in the Brazilian press -- 10 The farewell speech of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner -- 11 Spectacular crisis: Rhetorics of representation in Venezuela -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index