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Carceral Colonialism: A Rhetorical Genealogy of Man at the New World Turn

Hashlamon, Yanar
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0338-2994
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1714052827508504

Abstract Details

2024, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English.
The history of imperialism in the Americas is one that entwines colonial interests with carceral power. Marginalized populations are dehumanized, displaced, and subjected to different forms of incarceration to secure political, economic, and cultural aims. This dissertation examines the role of rhetoric and literacy in the long historiographic arc of carceral-colonialism’s development. From the new world turn, when European settler colonialism first took root in the Caribbean, to the transatlantic slave trade in the centuries that followed, I argue that carceral-colonial power was historically exercised by systematically denying the rhetoricity of dehumanized populations. At the core of my analysis is my theory of rhetorical debility, which describes the relationship between rhetoricity and the subjugation of populations marginalized by settler colonization, labor exploitation, and national security. Taking up contemporary questions in rhetorical studies surrounding new materialism, posthumanism, and marginalized global rhetorical traditions, this dissertation puts forward a series of Critical Discourse Analysis-based case studies and comparative rhetorical analyses of carceral-colonialism’s rhetorical historiography. I find that humanity has historically been defined and contested according to perceived capacities of rhetoricity – of practicing rhetoric and being rhetorical in ways that suit dominant social, economic, and political interests.
Christa Teston (Committee Chair)
Beverly Moss (Committee Member)
Wendy Hesford (Committee Member)
Pranav Jani (Committee Member)
262 p.
Ethnic Studies; History; Literacy; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Rhetoric
Rhetoric; Literacy; Postcolonialism; Historiography; New Materialism; Posthumanism; Critical Ethnic Studies

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  • Hashlamon, Y. (2024). Carceral Colonialism: A Rhetorical Genealogy of Man at the New World Turn [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1714052827508504

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hashlamon, Yanar. Carceral Colonialism: A Rhetorical Genealogy of Man at the New World Turn. 2024. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1714052827508504.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hashlamon, Yanar. "Carceral Colonialism: A Rhetorical Genealogy of Man at the New World Turn." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1714052827508504

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