Speaking itself
Susan Sontag's town hall address
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9239371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert James Branham (Bates College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-276 |
| Publication date | 1989-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00335638909383877 |
| OpenAlex | W2009024274 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
On February 6, 1982, Susan Sontag addressed a rally at New York City's Town Hall in which many prominent figures of the American left had gathered to protest Jaruzelski's seizure of power in Poland. Sontag seized what she believed to be an opportunity to promote the abandonment of “old and corrupt rhetoric” by the left. Her speech has been widely perceived as a sign of her defection from the left and has reinforced the rhetorical constraints she sought to dispel
Abandonment (legal) · Art · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Power (physics) · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sign (mathematics) · Sociology · Theology · Town hall · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 1996 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |