Writing democracy : the political turn in and beyond the Trump era / edited by Shannon Carter [and three others]
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- 8077919
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- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
- 1 online resource.
- ISBN:
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- 9780429889943 (electronic book)
- 0429889941 (electronic book)
- 9780429469169 (electronic book)
- 0429469160 (electronic book)
- 9780429889936 (electronic book)
- 0429889933 (electronic book)
- 9780429889929 (electronic book) (Mobipocket)
- 0429889925 (electronic book) (Mobipocket)
- Invalid ISBN:
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- 1138603104
- 9781138603103
- Series:
- Routledge research in writing studies.
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- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Images; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: What Does Democracy Look Like?; PART I: Mapping the Political Turn; 2 Composition's Left and the Struggle for Revolutionary Consciousness; 3 "Organize as If It Were Possible to Create a Movement That Will Change the World": An Interview with Angela Davis; 4 Marxist Ethics for Uncertain Times; 5 A Pedagogy for the Political Turn; PART II: Variations on the Political Turn
- 6 "I'd Like to Overthrow Capitalism, But Meanwhile, I Would Like the Nazis to be Completely Demoralized": An Interview with Dana L. Cloud7 Audience Addressed? Audience Invoked? Audience Organized!; 8 Taking a Lead from Student Movements in a "Political Turn"; 9 Nudging Ourselves Toward a Political Turn; 10 Sustainable Audiences/Renewable Products: Penn State's Student Farm, Business Writing, and Community Outreach; 11 The Political Turn and the Two-Year College: Equity- Centered Partnerships and the Opportunities of Democratic Reform; PART III: Taking the Political Turn
- 12 How Does It Feel to be a Problem at the 9/11 Museum?13 Dismantling the Wall: Analyzing the Rhetorics of Shock and Writing Political Transformation; 14 Pass the Baton: Lessons from Historic Examples of the Political Turn, 1967-1968; 15 The Visa Border Labyrinths: 310 Colombian and U.S. Artists and Scholars Write Their Way Through; 16 Conclusion: Further Notes on the Political Turn; Index
- Biography/History:
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Shannon Carter is Professor of English at Texas A&M-Commerce, where she teaches courses in community writing and digital storytelling. Her publications include articles in College English, CCC, and Community Literacy Journal, and The Way Literacy Lives: Rhetorical Dexterity and the "Basic" Writer (SUNY Press, 2008). With Deborah Mutnick in 2012, she edited a special issue of Community Literacy Journal emerging from the first Writing Democracy conference in 2011, which won the 2012 Best Public Intellectual Special Issue from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Her current book project project traces the history of community writing alternatively designed to reify and resist racial injustice in her conservative, relatively isolated university town, which is also the subject of a digital humanities project funded, in part, by NEH. Deborah Mutnick is Professor of English at Long Island University Brooklyn and author of Writing in an Alien World: Basic Writing and the Struggle for Equality in Higher Education. Other publications appear in a range of journals and edited collections. She is currently researching Richard Wright's relevance and political, intellectual, and literacy development. Steve Parks is author of Class Politics: The Movement for a Students Right go Their Own Language and Gravyland: Writing Beyond the Curriculum in the City of Brotherly Love, as well as a textbook, Writing Communities. He is founder of New City Community Press; Co-Founder/Board Chair of Syrians for Truth and Justice; and Editor of Studies in Writing and Rhetoric as well as Working and Writing for Change, Parlor Press Jessica Pauszek is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Her work has appeared in CCC, Community Literacy Journal, Literacy in Composition Studies, and Reflections. She is the co-editor of Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition and Writing and Working for Change series. Her current book project explores working-class community literacy practices of the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers as well as examines an archival curation project alongside community members in the context of precarity.
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