Description: Exploring the multimodal rhetorics--oral, written, material, visual, embodied, kinesthetic--that create meaning in historical discourse, Wieser argues for the rediscovery and practice of traditional Native modes of communication--a modern-day "going back to the blanket," or returning to Native practices.
Brief description:
Kimberly G. Wieser-Weryackwe is Professor of English and an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is one of the co-authors of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, the author of Back to the Blanket: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies, and the editor of American Indian Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students.
Review Quotes: "In this ambitious and insightful book, Kimberly G. Wieser enacts in her own writing the sort of holistic communication she is urging scholars in Native American studies to adopt. Her ability to communicate as she urges others to communicate is crucial. Her writing is engaging, personable, and refreshingly clear; her arguments are persuasive." --Lynn Domina, author of Understanding Ceremony: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents