Lives, letters, and quilts : women and everyday rhetorics of resistance /

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"Explores how writers, composers, and other artists without power resist dominant social, cultural, and political structures through the deployment of unconventional means and materials. To do so, Vanessa Kraemer Sohan focuses on three very unique instances, or case studies, that exemplify such...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sohan, Vanessa Kraemer, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2019.
Colección:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Temas:
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
Women and literature > United States.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Discours politique > États-Unis.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Rhetoric > Political aspects
Women and literature
Women > Social conditions
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: (un)conventional means: recontextualizing everyday rhetorics of resistance
  • The pen as sword: the Townsend letter-writing campaigns and the case of Pearl Burkhalter
  • With pen and prayer: the life and ministry of Eliza P. Gurney
  • "The needle as the pen": recontextualizing the discourses of quilts and quiltmaking
  • Conclusion: "What is this thing you call a pen?": the courage of ordinary Americans.

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