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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455363303321

Titolo

Active voices [[electronic resource] ] : composing a rhetoric for social movements / / edited by Sharon McKenzie Stevens and Patricia Malesh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4384-2643-7

1-4416-2052-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StevensSharon McKenzie

MaleshPatricia

Disciplina

808

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Social aspects

Rhetoric - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""ACTIVE  VOICES""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: Active Voices""; ""Part 1. A New Rhetoric for Social Change: Theories""; ""2. Vernacular Rhetoric and Social Movements: Performances of Resistance in the Rhetoric of the Everyday""; ""3. Dreaming to Change Our Situation: Reconfiguring the Exigence for Student Writing""; ""Part II. Public Rhetorics: Analyses""; ""4. Disorderly Women: Appropriating the Power Tools in Civic Discourses""; ""5. The Progressive Education Movement: A Case Study in Coalition Politics""

""6. Giving Voice to a Movement: Mills's Letter to the New Left and the Potential of History""""7. Sharing Our Recipes: Vegan Conversion Narratives as Social Praxis""; ""Part III. Changing Spaces for Learning: Actions""; ""8.Moving Students into Social Movements: Prisoner Reentry and the Research Paper""; ""9.Engaging Globalization through Local Community Activism: A Model for Activist Pedagogical Practice""; ""10. Creating Space for Community: Radical Identities and Collective Praxis""; ""Response Essay""; ""Contributors""; ""References""; ""Index"";