Lives, Letters, and Quilts : Women and Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance / Vanessa Sohan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sohan, Vanessa Kraemer, 1979- author.

Series:

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Women.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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 rhetorical strategies--one political, one epistolary, and one artistic"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-9267-X

9780817392673

OCLC:

1129015659