Working-Class Rhetorics
Contemporary Memoirs and Analyses
Published on 9. September 2021
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-90-04-39591-6 (ISBN)
Description
As the recent pandemic illustrated, many folks are only one or two paychecks away from bankruptcy. The economic disparities made starkly clear in the wake of shutdowns have brought home the need for thinking critically about class in ways that many U.S. citizens have traditionally resisted. This collection of memoirs and cultural analyses by established and newer scholars from a variety of disciplines seeks to reintroduce class in sophisticated, yet accessible, ways so that students may increase their critical literacy and consider the power of rhetoric to fight for equitable distribution of income and class power.
Contributors are: : Sarah Attfield, Jennifer Beech, Phil Bratta, Ryan Cooper Carl, Christina V. Cedillo, Jose M. Cortez, William DeGenaro, David Engen, Kelli R. Gill, Abby Graves, Matthew Wayne Guy, Katherine Highfill, Nancy Mack, Heather Palmer, Irvin Peckham, Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier, Philip L. Simpson, William Thelin and Edward J. Whitelock.
Contributors are: : Sarah Attfield, Jennifer Beech, Phil Bratta, Ryan Cooper Carl, Christina V. Cedillo, Jose M. Cortez, William DeGenaro, David Engen, Kelli R. Gill, Abby Graves, Matthew Wayne Guy, Katherine Highfill, Nancy Mack, Heather Palmer, Irvin Peckham, Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier, Philip L. Simpson, William Thelin and Edward J. Whitelock.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-39591-6 (9789004395916)
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Persons
Jennifer Beech, Ph.D. (2001), The University of Southern Mississippi, is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is the author of Brill's Guidebook for Teaching and Engaging with Critical Whiteness Studies, and has also co-chaired the Working-Class Culture and Pedagogy Standing Group for CCCC.
Matthew Wayne Guy, Ph.D. (2004), Louisiana State University, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he teaches literary theory. He has published and presented on pop culture, phenomenology, ethics, and the works of Emmanuel Levinas.
Matthew Wayne Guy, Ph.D. (2004), Louisiana State University, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he teaches literary theory. He has published and presented on pop culture, phenomenology, ethics, and the works of Emmanuel Levinas.
Content
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Defining and Defying Common (Mis)Understandings of the Working Class
?Jennifer Beech and Matthew Wayne Guy
PART 1: Memoirs and Personal Essays
1 Social Class and Sociolects
?Irvin Peckham
2 Becoming "Gente Educada": Navigating Academia as a Working-Class, Multiply-Marginalized Student
?Christina V. Cedillo
3 Rhetoric: From a Community Yet to Arrive
?Jose Manuel Cortez
4 Five Miles and a World Away: A Memoir
?Edward J. Whitelock
5 Feeling Like an Imposter at College
?Nancy Mack
6 (Un)Belonging in Liminality: Garage Stories
?Phil Bratta
7 Book Smart AND Street Smart
?Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier
8 "Remember the Spartans"
?William Thelin
9 Honest Work
?Katherine Highfill
PART 2: Critical Essays
10 Bodies in the World of Labor: Class, Affect, and Rhetoric in IWW's "What is What in the World of Labor?" Poster
?Phil Bratta
11 Mind on Heaven: Working-Class Rhetorics in Serpent-Handling Rituals of Southern Appalachia
?Heather Palmer
12 White Bread as a Working-Class Symbol
?Kelli R. Gill
13 "Put Some Flowers in the Graveyard": The Gloomy Fate of the Working Class in George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
?Philip L. Simpson
14 Working Class on the Small Screen
?Sarah Attfield
15 #ActorsWithDayJobs: Geoffrey Owens, Job Shaming, and the Ideology of Work
?William DeGenaro
16 (Literal) Self-Exposure: Celebrity "Activism" during Covid-19
?Abby Graves
17 Returning to Van Buren Street: A Photographic Essay
?David Engen
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Defining and Defying Common (Mis)Understandings of the Working Class
?Jennifer Beech and Matthew Wayne Guy
PART 1: Memoirs and Personal Essays
1 Social Class and Sociolects
?Irvin Peckham
2 Becoming "Gente Educada": Navigating Academia as a Working-Class, Multiply-Marginalized Student
?Christina V. Cedillo
3 Rhetoric: From a Community Yet to Arrive
?Jose Manuel Cortez
4 Five Miles and a World Away: A Memoir
?Edward J. Whitelock
5 Feeling Like an Imposter at College
?Nancy Mack
6 (Un)Belonging in Liminality: Garage Stories
?Phil Bratta
7 Book Smart AND Street Smart
?Valerie Murrenus Pilmaier
8 "Remember the Spartans"
?William Thelin
9 Honest Work
?Katherine Highfill
PART 2: Critical Essays
10 Bodies in the World of Labor: Class, Affect, and Rhetoric in IWW's "What is What in the World of Labor?" Poster
?Phil Bratta
11 Mind on Heaven: Working-Class Rhetorics in Serpent-Handling Rituals of Southern Appalachia
?Heather Palmer
12 White Bread as a Working-Class Symbol
?Kelli R. Gill
13 "Put Some Flowers in the Graveyard": The Gloomy Fate of the Working Class in George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
?Philip L. Simpson
14 Working Class on the Small Screen
?Sarah Attfield
15 #ActorsWithDayJobs: Geoffrey Owens, Job Shaming, and the Ideology of Work
?William DeGenaro
16 (Literal) Self-Exposure: Celebrity "Activism" during Covid-19
?Abby Graves
17 Returning to Van Buren Street: A Photographic Essay
?David Engen
Index