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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
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Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects. |
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United States. |
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Women and literature. |
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sohan, Vanessa Kraemer, 1979- Lives, letters, and quilts. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2019 9780817320386 (DLC) 2019017182 (OCoLC)1104062865 |
| ISBN |
9780817392673 (electronic book) |
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081739267X (electronic book) |
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9780817320386 |
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0817320385 |
| Standard No. |
40029601328 |
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