Writing Democracy (eBook, PDF)

The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era
Redaktion: Carter, Shannon; Pauszek, Jessica; Parks, Stephen; Mutnick, Deborah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era calls on the field of writing studies to take up a necessary agenda of social and economic change in its classrooms, its scholarship, and its communities to challenge the rise of neoliberalism and right-wing nationalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429889943
• Artikelnr.: 57480736

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction: "What Does Democracy Look Like?" Part I: Mapping
the Political Turn Chapter Two: Composition's Left and the Struggle for
Revolutionary Consciousness Chapter Three: Organize as If It Were Possible
to Create a Movement That Will Change the World": An Interview with Angela
Davis Chapter Four: Marxist Ethics for Uncertain Times Chapter Five: A
Pedagogy for the Political Turn Part II: Variations on the Political Turn
Chapter Six: "I'd Like to Overthrow Capitalism, But Meanwhile, I would Like
the Nazis to be Completely Demoralized": An Interview with Dana L. Cloud
Chapter Seven: Audience Addressed? Audience Invoked? Audience Organized!
Chapter Eight: Legibility, Failure, and Political Turning Chapter Nine:
Nudging Ourselves Toward a Political Turn Chapter Ten: Sustainable
Audiences/Renewable Products: Penn State's Student Farm, Business Writing,
and Community Outreach Chapter Eleven: The Political Turn and the Two-Year
College: Equity-Centred Partnerships and the Opportunities of Democratic
Reform Part III: Taking the Political Turn Chapter Twelve: How Does it Feel
to be a Problem at the 9/11 Museum? Chapter Thirteen: Dismantling the Wall:
Analysing the Rhetorics of Shock and Writing Political Transformation
Chapter Fourteen: Pass the Baton: Lessons from Historic Examples of the
Political Turn, 1967-68 Chapter Fifteen: The Visa Labyrinths: Writing Our
Way Through the U.S.-Columbian Border Chapter Sixteen: Conclusion: Further
Notes on the Political Turn