Type of Document Dissertation Author Ramzy, Rasha I. Author's Email Address rasharamzy2@yahoo.com URN etd-12012006-140441 Title Communicating Cosmopolitanism:An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Jimmy Carter, Vaclav Havel, and Edward Said Degree Ph.D. Department Communications Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title David Cheshier Committee Chair Carol Winkler Committee Member George Pullman Committee Member James Darsey Committee Member Mary Stuckey Committee Member Keywords
- Cosmopolitanism
- Rhetorical Tokens
- Vaclav Have
- Jimmy Carter
- Edward Said
Date of Defense 2006-08-09 Availability unrestricted Abstract This project explores how cosmopolitan personas rhetorically negotiate the space between local and global, discursively tying people to the national as well as to the global or transnational. It examines the possible co-existence of cosmopolitanism and nationalism while identifying how each is articulated in response to the other. As global networks become increasingly complex, rethinking borders and how they are articulated is essential. Can a quintessential cosmopolitan also be a public nationalist? Are cosmopolitan discourses compromised by their presumed lack of attachment to the local? To what extent and with what success are cosmopolitanism and nationalism siultaneously articulated? In order to study these and other questions, I analyze the public personas crafted by cosmopolitan figures Vaclav Havel, Jimmy Carter, and Edward Said. By illuminating how they negotiate that ambiguous space between locale and its absence, a project attentive to the rhetorical possibilities of discursive connection in a world increasingly devoid of shared loyalties and histories enables a fuller understanding of the possibilites of intercultural contact in a globalizing world.Files
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