Compelled to write : alternative rhetoric in theory and practice / David L. Wallace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, David L., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric.

English language.

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

David Wallace argues that any understanding of writing studies must include the conception of discourse as an embodied force with real consequences for real people. Informed in important ways by queer theory, Wallace calls to account users of dominant discourses and at the same time articulates a theory base from which to interpret ""alternative rhetoric.""To examine the practice of writing from varied margins of society, Compelled to Write offers careful readings of four exemplar American writers, each of whom felt compelled within their own time and place to writ

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Defining Alternative Rhetoric: Embracing Intersectionality and Owning Opacity

Interchapter: Piano Lessons

2.Sarah Grimke: Breaking the Bonds of Womanhood

Interchapter: Jumper Cables and Double Consciousness as a Habit of Mind

3.Frederick Douglass: Taking an Ell to Claim Humanity

Interchapter: Pickles

4.Gloria Anzaldua: Borderlands and Fences; Literacy and Rhetoric

Interchapter: The Light of the World

5.David Sedaris: Expanding Epideictic

A Rhetoric of Indirection

Interchapter: Day Four in Paris

6.Alternative Rhetoric and Marked Writing

Interchapter: God Abhors You.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613250186

9781283250184

1283250187

9780874218138

0874218136

OCLC:

741614565