Lives, letters, and quilts : women and everyday rhetorics of resistance / Vanessa Sohan.
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TextSeries: Rhetoric, culture, and social critiquePublisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780817392673
- 081739267X
- Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States
- Women and literature -- United States
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions
- Discours politique -- États-Unis
- Femmes et littérature -- États-Unis
- Femmes -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Rhetoric -- Political aspects
- Women and literature
- Women -- Social conditions
- United States
- 809/.933581 23
- P301.5.P67 S64 2019eb
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"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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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