Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Rhetorics of democracy in the Americas 1
5. Part 1 Questioning the Narratives of Democracy Beyond the West
6. 1 The democratic hemisphere 23
7. 2 A strange democracy: rhetoric, Posthegemony, and Latinamericanism 39
8. 3 Draining the democracy: Donald J. Ttrump and anti-immigrant rhetoric 57
9. 4 Revisiting the seeming impossibility of migrants as political actors 72
10. 5 American Exceptionalism, baseball diplomacy, and the normalization of us-cuban relations 88
11. Part 2 Problematizing and Reconstructing Democracy in Latin America
12. 6 Communicating about corruption: Guatemalan Rhetorics of corruption 107
13. 7 Re/tracing the local grassroots women activists’ crafting of rhetorical agency in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico 125
14. 8 The peace agreement and the rhetoric of religion in the Colombian plebiscite: religious activism and democracy 143
15. 9 People, media, and democracy in Brazil: discourses about Lula’s oratory in the Brazilian press 160
16. 10 The farewell speech of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner 180
17. 11 Spectacular crisis: Rhetorics of representation in Venezuela 196
18. Notes 215
19. Contributors 257
20. Index 261