Studies of Identity in The 2008 Presidential Campaign

Robert E. Denton

Informasi Umum

Kode

18.01.222

Klasifikasi

324.5 - Campaign for Nominations

Jenis

Buku - Circulation (Dapat Dipinjam)

Subjek

Campaign

No. Rak

Dilihat

108 kali

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Abstraksi

This essay examines the rhetorical identities of Hillary Clinton’s two political memoirs—Living History and Hard Choices. The first spanned her childhood through her years as first lady. The second recounted her tenure as secretary of state. Though both memoirs were written with a past orientation, they also sought to keep alive a future run for the presidency. Situating the two Clinton memoirs in the history of biography, we employ corpus rhetorical methods from the digital humanities to establish that Hard Choices featured a policy wonk identity compared to Living History’s more personal storyteller identity. This result is not surprising in light of the different segments of life each memoir covered. Adding surprise and insight is the discovery that both memoirs also feature additional Clinton identities that shed light on her strategies for a future presidential run and revealed the identity problems she faced as a woman vying for the presidency.