Rhetoric, Race, Religion, and the Charleston Shootings: Was Blind But Now I See

This book considers the 2015 Charleston mass shooting from a rhetorical perspective and offers an appraisal of the discourses that cradled and emerged from it. It argues that Charleston was different from other mass shootings in America and that the differences can be heard and seen in that rhetoric.

Melody Lehn is assistant professor of rhetoric and women’s and gender studies at Sewanee: The University of the South. Sean Patrick O’Rourke is professor of rhetoric and American studies at Sewanee: The University of the South.