Moving Rhetorica

Kennerly, Michele; Woods,

doi:10.1080/02773945.2017.1315445

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“…Contemporary iterations of the labyrinth myth found in youth literature and encyclopedias of mythology were formed during Athenian Democracy. For the Athenians, the central protagonist was Theseus, a celebrated hero who united the demes of Attica into Athens, also known as the sunoikismos (Kennerly & Woods, 2018). The sunoikismos occurd after his adventures with the labyrinth: Theseus traveled to Crete as a sacrificial tribute required of King Minos, received Ariadne’s thread and sword, killed the Minotaur in the labyrinth and successfully escaped with Ariadne in tow, returned home, became King of Athens and united the demes.…”

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Colonizing cuts of labyrinth mythology, a tangling parable of white sensibilities

Keeling

2020

Communication and the Public

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This article demonstrates the way wounds, and affects generally, are figured by the writing of history. It traces patterns of thinking about the labyrinth primarily in histories, theories, and myths of the past 150 years to demonstrate how the labyrinth has been cut by colonization. From the Mycenaean colonization of Indigenous Cretans (inaccurately named “Minoans”) to the emergence of white feminism and its present day practice, figures of the labyrinth iteratively cut history to perpetuate the un/common loss of colonized communities and to enact white racist sensibilities of exclusion. Entangling Karen Barad’s cutting together-apart and Kent Ono’s colonial amnesia, colonizing cuts are constitutive exclusions that wound and exclude colonized communities from history and world making.

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Section: White Sensibilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%