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Daniel Mandell’s essay, “Land and Labor” provides detailed background information about the society in which Apess lived.
To help prepare for the RA, it will be useful to break down this article and identify useful passages that help explain the context for Apess’s A Son of the Forest. The goals of this exercise are to generate a master list of quotes from this essay that relate directly to Apess’s autobiography, and to practice applying background sources to primary sources. Or in other words to practice using a secondary source to help you analyze a primary source.
Please post the following:
1) A quoted passage from “Land and Labor” that helps to explain 2) a quoted passage from A Son of the Forest.
Along with your two quoted passages, please also include 3) a quick explanation of how the Mandell passage helps us understand the rhetorical strategies in the Apess passage.
Some rules:
perference:
No one lives or communicates in a vacuum. Who we are, what we care about, and how we express our ideas are determined in large part by our context: when and where we live, and the social, historical, cultural forces and ideological discourses that shape the society in which we live.
Let’s break down these aspects of context–what exactly are “social, historical, and cultural forces” and “ideological discourses”?
What is social context? At its most basic, the social context that influences a text is anything that has to do with a society in which the rhetor and/or audience lives. (Further reading: check out the Wikipedia entry on “Society” (Links to an external site.)to see how big and varied this can be.) When we talk about social context in WR39B, we refer to any of the following:
What is historical context? Historical context includes any past event or trend that influences a text. (Further reading: check out the Wikipedia entry on “History” (Links to an external site.) to see how big and varied this can be.)
A text doesn’t have to be about a specific historical event to be influenced by it.
What is cultural context? “Culture” in its broadest definition is anything having to do with the way people behave–this definition overlaps quite a bit with that of “society.” (Further reading: check out the Wikipedia entry on “Culture” (Links to an external site.) to see how big and varied this can be.)
But for our purposes, we can narrow this definition down a bit. When we talk about culture in terms of rhetorical context, we refer mainly to ideas and arts that influence a text. Let’s go ahead and add the technologythat influences a text, too.
Social, historical, and cultural context can seem pretty abstract and distant when we’re trying to figure out how they influence a specific text. It can be easier instead to think of rhetorical context in terms of ideology.
What is ideology? Ideology is any system of values and beliefs that determine how people behave and perceive the world around them.