Rhetoric Remains: South Africa / Argentina

SALAZAR, PHILIPPE-JOSEPH; VITALE, MARÍA ALEJANDRA; DAGATTI, MARIANO; CORRARELLO, ANA

Buenos Aires

Workshop; RSA /Argentina Foundational Speeches Workshop; 2014

Instituto de Lingüística, FFyL-UBA

This volume of the African Yearbook of Rhetoric is devoted to key speeches in the history of South Africa and Argentina. The first section, titled ?White Voices?, consists of two speeches: the origi-nal typescript of Harold Macmillan?s epochal ?Wind of change? and a speech by Margaret Ballinger who represented Black citizens who were otherwise disenfranchi-sed, that is unable to elect their own representatives. She was the last ?Black? Mem-ber of the Union Parliament, from 1937 to 1960. The second section, ?Argentine Voices?, brings together a careful sample of short speeches that retrace the rhetorical trajectory of national identity formation through the means of oratory ? from Peronism to the recovery of democracy, wit-hout eschewing the military interlude. This selection has the further merit to bring to English-speaking rhetoricians sources otherwise unintelligible.