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Reclaiming Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Reclaiming Identity

This collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences. They examine the way theory, politics and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential understandings of identity.

Stories of Mentoring
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Stories of Mentoring

Describes mentoring of teachers and scholars in the field of composition and rhetoric.

Vote and Voice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Vote and Voice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-03-13
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

Vote and Voice is the first book-length study to address the writing and speaking practices of members of women's political organizations in the decade after the suffrage movement.

Reframing 9/11
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Reframing 9/11

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-05-13
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events.

Transforming English Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Transforming English Studies

Transforming English Studies provides a uniquely interdisciplinary view of English studies’ “crises”—both real and imagined--and works toward resolving the legitimate pathologies that threaten the sustainability of the discipline.

Working in the Archives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Working in the Archives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-12-14
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  • Publisher: SIU Press

Archival research of any magnitude can be daunting. With this in mind, Alexis E. Ramsey, Wendy B. Sharer, Barbara L’Eplattenier, and Lisa Mastrangelo have developed an indispensable volume for the first-time researcher as well as the seasoned scholar. Working in the Archives is a guide to the world of rhetoric and composition archives, from locating an archival source and its materials to establishing one’s own collection of archival materials. This practical volume provides insightful information on a variety of helpful topics, such as basic archival theory, processes, and principles; the use of hidden or digital archives; the intricacies of searching for and using letters and photograp...

Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 584

Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics

Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies gathers significant, oft-cited scholarship about feminism and rhetoric into one convenient volume. Essays examine the formation of the vibrant and growing field of feminist rhetoric; feminist historiographic research methods and methodologies; and women’s distinct sites, genres, and styles of rhetoric. The book’s most innovative and pedagogically useful feature is its presentation of controversies in the form of case studies, each consisting of exchanges between or among scholars about significant questions.

The Search for Wholeness and Diaspora Literacy in Contemporary African American Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

The Search for Wholeness and Diaspora Literacy in Contemporary African American Literature

This volume has as a cohesive argument the exploration of the different manifestations of the search for wholeness and spirituality in the writings of contemporary African American women writers, covering different literary genres such as fiction (both novels and short stories), drama and poetry. Together with the issue of spirituality, the African American search for wholeness is analyzed as a source of creativity and agency. As expressed in the contemporary literature of black women writers, starting in the 1980s, the search for wholeness reflects a beauty realized through the healing of the spirit and the body, and is a process that takes on dimensions of reconciling the past and the pres...

To Know Her Own History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

To Know Her Own History

To Know Her Own History chronicles the evolution of writing programs at a landmark Southern women's college during the postwar period. Kelly Ritter finds that despite its conservative Southern culture and vocational roots, the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina was a unique setting where advanced writing programs and creativity flourished long before these trends emerged nationally. Ritter profiles the history of the Woman's College, first as a normal school, where women trained as teachers with an emphasis on composition and analytical writing, then as a liberal arts college. She compares the burgeoning writing program here to those of the Seven Sisters (Wellesley, Smith, R...

Networked Process
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Networked Process

Helen Foster problematizes one of the dominant metaphors in rhetoric and composition, the notion of “writing process,” and, in turn, offers an important and engaging new approach for the future of the discipline, one that directly addresses the complexities, challenges, and opportunities for writing research in a postmodern world.