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- Title
Wilderness, Freedom, Firearms: Sacred Rhetoric at the 53<sup>rd</sup> Parallel.
- Authors
Belanger, Patrick
- Abstract
This article analyzes National Rifle Association past–president Charlton Heston's 2000 speech to the British Columbia Wildlife Federation. Narrating a shared mythology, Heston mapped a bridge between the two groups by dovetailing three ideas: wilderness, freedom, and firearms – each of which ostensibly transcends national borders. By exploring how Heston engaged a foreign audience dedicated to wildlife conservation, the paper examines the capacity of sacred rhetoric to generate shared ideological ground and thereby both expand, and demarcate, a community's contours.
- Subjects
BRITISH Columbia; HESTON, Charlton, 1923-2008; NATIONAL Rifle Association of America; FIREARMS; WILDLIFE conservation; RHETORIC; LIBERTY; MYTHOLOGY
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2021, Vol 85, Issue 3, p360
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2020.1802655