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An Investigation Of The Rhetorical And Representational Aspects Of Bleed Green, Jacob A. Segura
An Investigation Of The Rhetorical And Representational Aspects Of Bleed Green, Jacob A. Segura
The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research
This essay is a retroactive examination of a personal narrative titled Bleed Green, a story that characterizes my experience working for the supermarket Publix. I performed Bleed Green in front of an audience at the KSU Tellers' Spring 2021 Showcase. This essay serves both to analyze the rhetorical methods of my story and to precede the script of the performance, which accompanies this essay. In the essay, I contextualize the story through the lens of three widely underutilized concepts from various disciplines: framing, foregrounding and backgrounding, and representation and agency. Storytellers often critically analyze their works, particularly with the …