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Shows How a Rhetorical Theory That Centers Sensitivity Can Benefit Scholars and Students

Offers a New Rhetorical Repertoire for Interactive Writing in Social Media and Other Digital Spaces. Rhetoric and composition scholar Donna LeCourt combines theoretical inquiry, qualitative research, and rhetorical analysis to examine what it means to write for the ?public? in an age when the distinctions between public and private have eroded. Public spaces are increasingly privatized, and individual subjectivities have been reconstructed according to market terms. Part critique and part road map, Social Mediations begins with a critical reading of digital public pedagogies, then turns to developing a new theory that can guide a more effective writing pedagogy. LeCourt offers a theory based in embodied relationality that uses information economies to develop public spheres. She highlights how information commodities generate value through circulation, orchestrate relationships among people, and support unequal power structures. By demonstrating how we can use information capital for social change rather than market expansion, writers and readers are encouraged to seek out encounters with cultural and political impact. AUTHOR: Donna LeCourt is professor and chair of the English Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, digital writing, teaching writing, and issues of difference in writing studies. She is the author of Identity Matters: Schooling the Student Body in Academic Discourse and coeditor of Rewriting Success: Constructing Careers and Institutional Change in Rhetoric and Composition.

Weaponized Digital Rhetorics

Centers Black Women's Discourse and Sociopolitical Action from the Nation's Founding through the Civil War and Beyond

Explores Writing as a Practice of Desire through an LGBTQ+ Lens

"Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their laboring lives. The case studies reveal noteworthy patterns in how these women's words helped to construct the complex web of class relations in which they were enmeshed. Rather than a teleological narrative of economic empowerment over the course of a century, Unorganized Women speaks to the enduring obstacles low- and no-wage women face, their creativity and resilience in the face of adversity, and the challenges that impede the creation of meaningful coalitions. By focusing on repetitive rhetorical labor, this book affords a point of entry for analyzing the discursive productions of a range of women workers and for constructing a richer history of women's rhetoric in the United States."--

How Five Prominent Women Writers Reshaped the Essay in the Late Twentieth Century

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Composition, Literacy, and Culture series

A Global Analysis of Sites, Practices, and Processes of Decolonial and Indigenous Meaning-Making

"Disability and literacy are often understood as incompatible. Disability is taken to be a sign of illiteracy, and illiteracy to be a sign of disability. These oppositions generate damaging consequences for disabled students (and those labeled as such) who are denied full literacy education and for nonliterate adults who are perceived as lacking intelligence, knowledge, and ability. What It Means to Be Literate turns attention to disabled writers themselves, exposing how the cultural oppositions between disability and literacy affect how people understand themselves as literate and even as fully human. Drawing on interviews with individuals who have experienced strokes and brain injuries causing the language disability aphasia, Elisabeth L. Miller argues for the importance of taking a disability materiality approach to literacy that accounts for the embodied, material experiences of disabled people writing and reading. This approach reveals how aphasic writers' literate practices may reinscribe, challenge, or even exceed scripts around the body in literacy (how brains, hands, eyes, mouths, voice boxes, and more operate to make reading and writing happen) as well as what and how spaces, activities, tools, and materials matter in literate practice. Miller pushes for a deeper understanding of how individuals' specific bodies always matter for literate practice and identity, enabling researchers to better account for, and counter, ableist literate norms"--

A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe, "The Labyrinths of Literacy" offers original and controversial views on the relation of literacy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the development of society today.

In an insightful assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political, and technological upheavals of the past thirty years, "Fragments of Rationality" questions why composition studies has been less affected by postmodern theory than other humanities and social science disciplines.

Teaching literacy in a multicultural society. This book is rich in its citations for those of us who wish to hear the echoes of real voices as we read the voices of real people living complicated lives. So should it help us all, for in some sense all of us, in these times, are eating on the street.