Mapping an American Indian Feminist Rhetoric in the Poetry of Nora Naranjo-Morse and Esther Belin.
To date it is the differences between American Indian feminist
rhetoric and white feminist rhetoric which have dominated attempts to define the rhetorics of American Indian feminist. Using such differences as a starting point, Paula Gunn-Allen, Donna Hightower Langston, Devon Mihesuah have outlined a tentative rhetorical roadmap. In this paper I explore the literature devoted to the differences between Western Feminism and White Feminism. From this literature I establish two rhetorical commonplaces, discuss how these commonplaces construct a “subaltern counterpublic,” and then explore the poetry of Esther Belin and Nora Naranjo-Morse for examples of these commonplaces. Ultimately this paper seeks to being mapping an American Indian Feminist Rhetoric without falling into the colonizing language and hierarchal practices of many comparative rhetors.
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