Rhetorical Sovereignty by Lyons

"This forced replacement of one identity for another, a cultural violence enabled in part through acts of physical violence, was in so many ways located at the scene of writing" (1129).

The significance of this quote is the fact that so many cultures have been violated with violence to conform to a certain identity when it came to their writing and their style of writing.

We should care because our readings today are greatly affected by this, especially academia readings. Historically the writings we read are from white men and other cultures, races, and genders are not represented.

This is very important to the classroom because we need to start teaching our student that other cultures writings are just as important as the white man's writing. Also, it is important that women understand that they need to be heard as well.

In order to do composition justice we need to find ways to go back to archives and pull out different races and genders writings, even if they are extracurricular writings, or personal writings. We need to understand how other cultures view writing and what was important to them in their writings.