Snake(s)kin
The Intertwining Mêtis and Mythopoetics of Serpentine Rhetoric
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11693444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin Pomykala (Independent Scholar, Chicago, IL, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 264-274 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Rhetoric Society Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-3945 • E-ISSN: 1930-322X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02773945.2017.1309916 |
| OpenAlex | W2613963387 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Snakes suffer from a bad reputation, and few human allies stand to prevent their extirpation. Yet more rhetorically powerful than any ethical injunction halting human violence upon nature, a sensuous moment of intertwining with the serpent can enact onto-epistemological shifts and dispositional transformations. Through a serpentine mêtis and mythopoetics of cunning wisdom and knowledge production, we can imaginatively, transversally, re-member the feeling of raising serpentine energy along the spine, sloughing off old skin, and slithering down among the roots and rhizomes into the depths of uncertainty. Opening up a space for the otherwise, responding to the hum of rhetorical energy coursing through our more-than-human relations, we may still live to tell new stories with the snakes and the rest of our strange kin
Hum · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |