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Distant Localities: The Rhetorical Contradictions Of Local Food Narratives, Anna Grace Zimmerman
Distant Localities: The Rhetorical Contradictions Of Local Food Narratives, Anna Grace Zimmerman
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation explores the rhetorical construction of the local food movement through the narrative genre of the food exposé. On its face, local food appears to be a grassroots movement, and yet, through an analysis of the tropes used to describe and construct the movement, another story emerges – one intended for elite audiences. Using narrative critique, this project explores both the narratives of local food, as well as the deployment of that narrative into the material world and in the construction of particular identities. Ultimately, I argue that the narratives of local food give the impression that this way …
Detroit's Sport Spaces And The Rhetoric Of Consumption, Anthony C. Cavaiani
Detroit's Sport Spaces And The Rhetoric Of Consumption, Anthony C. Cavaiani
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation argues how Detroit’s spaces of sport consumption rhetorically configure the city’s identity. Specifically, this project interrogates the city’s sports spaces and argues how they anchor identity in the following ways: through the production of accessible discourses, through the emphasis on certain discourses and the de-emphasis of other discourses, through the regulation, control and biopower of the city’s sports spaces and their rhetorical effect on Detroit’s identity, and through the creation of distinct public memories produced from these discourses.