Running with Rosalie Fish: (Over)Laps in Rhetorical Race Spaces

dc.contributor.advisorWieser-Weryackwe, Kimberly
dc.contributor.authorCowger, Katelen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKurlinkus, William
dc.contributor.committeeMemberJackson, Rachel
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T20:19:01Z
dc.date.available2024-05-20T20:19:01Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-10
dc.date.manuscript2024-04-23
dc.description.abstractRosalie Fish (Cowlitz/Muckleshoot) is an activist who runs for The University of Washington and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. During her races, she dons red paint, and her body exists as a living archive, carrying stories of ancestors throughout time and space. In this thesis, I “story with” (Archibald) Fish to compose an in-flux framework of the rhetorical “race space” using a story of Fish’s 3200-meter race for Renee Davis, my experience racing a 1500-meter race, and Momaday, Bruchac, and Lyons’s spatial rhetoric concepts. Then, I use this framework to consider how Fish and I (over)lap across culture and geography to make meaning of my ethical responsibilities as a scholar-runner-human and work towards rhetorical alliance. Finally, I consider how the race space can potentially be used in other contexts of cross-cultural discourse. This thesis views the “race space” as a discursive space full of cross-cultural discourse, shaped by personal stories, where runners of all intersecting identities—race, class, culture, gender, sex, age, sexuality, and religion—value racing, storytelling, and writing as means of communication to disrupt, talk back, resist, and build community to talk across and with difference. Towards these purposes, I respond to two framing questions: what does it mean to overlap in space with someone different than myself? As a non-Native researcher, how do I ethically engage with Indigenous people and research while occupying Native land?en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/340379
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous Rhetoricsen_US
dc.subjectRunning Rhetoricsen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous Activismen_US
dc.thesis.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.titleRunning with Rosalie Fish: (Over)Laps in Rhetorical Race Spacesen_US
ou.groupDodge Family College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Englishen_US

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