Red Rhetoric
This proposed special session of the 2004 MLA will examine literary and
other cultural nationalist strategies that stigmatize political opposition
as "red." Papers should explore cultural deployments of this strategy,
examining in detail the complex ways that racial, sexual, and/or class-
based identities in the U.S. are constructed against and through red
rhetoric. The panel might not only address red rhetoric as stigma, but also
the extent to which being "red" has been or can be claimed and
celebrated as resistance. Additionally, papers are welcome that trace the
changing nature of red rhetoric and/or responses to it from the 1930’s to
the 1950’s to today.
Send one page abstract and short cv by March 1 to sguttman@ithaca.edu
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Sondra Guttman
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Ithaca College
311 Muller Faculty Center
Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 274-7974
"[T]he root function of language is to control the universe by describing
it. " --James Baldwin
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