Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice
Bodies of Knowledge challenges homogenizing (mis)understandings of knowledge construction and provides a complex discussion of what happens when we do not attend to embodied rhetorical theories and practices. Because language is always a reflection of culture, to attempt to erase language and knowledge practices that reflect minoritized and historically excluded cultural experiences obscures th­e legitimacy of such experiences both within and outside the academy.
 
The pieces in Bodies of Knowledge draw explicit attention to the impact of the body on text, the impact of the body in text, the impact of the body as text, and the impact of the body upon textual production. The contributors investigate embodied rhetorics through the lenses of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, disability and pain, technologies and ecologies, clothing and performance, and scent, silence, and touch. In doing so, they challenge the (false) notion that academic knowledge—that is, “real” knowledge—is disembodied and therefore presumed white, middle class, cis-het, able-bodied, and male. This collection lays bare how myriad bodies invent, construct, deliver, and experience the processes of knowledge building.
 
Experts in the field of writing studies provide the necessary theoretical frameworks to better understand productive (and unproductive) uses of embodied rhetorics within the academy and in the larger social realm. To help meet the theoretical and pedagogical needs of the discipline, Bodies of Knowledge addresses embodied rhetorics and embodied writing more broadly though a rich, varied, and intersectional approach. These authors address larger questions around embodiment while considering the various impacts of the body on theories and practices of rhetoric and composition.
 
Contributors: Scot Barnett, Margaret Booker, Katherine Bridgman, Sara DiCaglio, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Vyshali Manivannan, Temptaous Mckoy, Julie Myatt, Julie Nelson, Ruth Osorio, Kate Pantelides, Caleb Pendygraft, Nadya Pittendrigh, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins, Anthony Stagliano, Megan Strom
 
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Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice
Bodies of Knowledge challenges homogenizing (mis)understandings of knowledge construction and provides a complex discussion of what happens when we do not attend to embodied rhetorical theories and practices. Because language is always a reflection of culture, to attempt to erase language and knowledge practices that reflect minoritized and historically excluded cultural experiences obscures th­e legitimacy of such experiences both within and outside the academy.
 
The pieces in Bodies of Knowledge draw explicit attention to the impact of the body on text, the impact of the body in text, the impact of the body as text, and the impact of the body upon textual production. The contributors investigate embodied rhetorics through the lenses of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, disability and pain, technologies and ecologies, clothing and performance, and scent, silence, and touch. In doing so, they challenge the (false) notion that academic knowledge—that is, “real” knowledge—is disembodied and therefore presumed white, middle class, cis-het, able-bodied, and male. This collection lays bare how myriad bodies invent, construct, deliver, and experience the processes of knowledge building.
 
Experts in the field of writing studies provide the necessary theoretical frameworks to better understand productive (and unproductive) uses of embodied rhetorics within the academy and in the larger social realm. To help meet the theoretical and pedagogical needs of the discipline, Bodies of Knowledge addresses embodied rhetorics and embodied writing more broadly though a rich, varied, and intersectional approach. These authors address larger questions around embodiment while considering the various impacts of the body on theories and practices of rhetoric and composition.
 
Contributors: Scot Barnett, Margaret Booker, Katherine Bridgman, Sara DiCaglio, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Vyshali Manivannan, Temptaous Mckoy, Julie Myatt, Julie Nelson, Ruth Osorio, Kate Pantelides, Caleb Pendygraft, Nadya Pittendrigh, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins, Anthony Stagliano, Megan Strom
 
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Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice

Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice

Bodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice

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Bodies of Knowledge challenges homogenizing (mis)understandings of knowledge construction and provides a complex discussion of what happens when we do not attend to embodied rhetorical theories and practices. Because language is always a reflection of culture, to attempt to erase language and knowledge practices that reflect minoritized and historically excluded cultural experiences obscures th­e legitimacy of such experiences both within and outside the academy.
 
The pieces in Bodies of Knowledge draw explicit attention to the impact of the body on text, the impact of the body in text, the impact of the body as text, and the impact of the body upon textual production. The contributors investigate embodied rhetorics through the lenses of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, disability and pain, technologies and ecologies, clothing and performance, and scent, silence, and touch. In doing so, they challenge the (false) notion that academic knowledge—that is, “real” knowledge—is disembodied and therefore presumed white, middle class, cis-het, able-bodied, and male. This collection lays bare how myriad bodies invent, construct, deliver, and experience the processes of knowledge building.
 
Experts in the field of writing studies provide the necessary theoretical frameworks to better understand productive (and unproductive) uses of embodied rhetorics within the academy and in the larger social realm. To help meet the theoretical and pedagogical needs of the discipline, Bodies of Knowledge addresses embodied rhetorics and embodied writing more broadly though a rich, varied, and intersectional approach. These authors address larger questions around embodiment while considering the various impacts of the body on theories and practices of rhetoric and composition.
 
Contributors: Scot Barnett, Margaret Booker, Katherine Bridgman, Sara DiCaglio, Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Vyshali Manivannan, Temptaous Mckoy, Julie Myatt, Julie Nelson, Ruth Osorio, Kate Pantelides, Caleb Pendygraft, Nadya Pittendrigh, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins, Anthony Stagliano, Megan Strom
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646422012
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Publication date: 07/15/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 275
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

A. Abby Knoblauch is associate professor of English at Kansas State University. Her work, which focuses on embodied rhetorics, fat rhetorics, composition pedagogies, and linguistic equality, has been published in College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, and a number of edited collections.

Marie E. Moeller is professor of English and associate dean at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. Her scholarly work—which focuses on professional and technical writing, equity, online education, and embodiment—has appeared in various edited collections as well as in College English, Technical Communication Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Communication Design Quarterly.
 

Table of Contents

Contents Preface: The Body’s Turn in Rhetorical Studies | William P. Banks Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Bodies, Embodiments, and Embodied Rhetorics | A. Abby Knoblauch and Marie E. Moeller Part I: Affect, Sense/s, Permeability 2. Violence and Beneficence in the Rhetorics of Touch | Scot Barnett 3. Disrupting Embodied Silence | Katherine Bridgman 4. Towards an Olfactory Rhetoric: Scent, Affect, Material, Embodiment | Sara DiCaglio 5. Embodying History: The Bodies and Affects of Museum Rhetorics | Julie D. Nelson 6. The Role of Intrabody Resonance in Political Organizing | Nadya Pittendrigh Part II: Advocacy, Policy, Citizenship 7. Discomfort Training in the Archives: Embodied Rhetoric in Feminist Advocacy | Meg Brooker, Julie Myatt, and Kate Pantelides 8. Fannie Barrier Williams’s Citizen-Woman: Embodying Rhetoric at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition | Kristie S. Fleckenstein 9. Rewriting Maternal Bodies on the Senate Floor: Tammy Duckworth’s Embodied Rhetorics of Intersectional Motherhood | Ruth Osorio 10. Criminals and Victims: The Embodied Rhetorics of Unaccompanied Latinx Children as Represented in Spanish-and English-Language Media | Megan Strom Part III: Textuality, Multimodality, Digitality 11. The Successful Text Is Not Always the One That Murders Me to Protect You | Vyshali Manivannan 12. Hooking Up Embodied Technologies, Queer Rhetorics, and Grindr’s Grid | Caleb Pendygraft 13. Avowed Embodiment: Self-Identification, Performative Strategic Attire, and TRAP Karaoke | Temptaous Mckoy 14. Matters That (Em)Body | Kellie Sharp-Hoskins and Anthony Stagliano Index
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