Working-Class Rhetorics: Contemporary Memoirs and Analyses
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, José 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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Working-Class Rhetorics: Contemporary Memoirs and Analyses
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, José 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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Working-Class Rhetorics: Contemporary Memoirs and Analyses

Working-Class Rhetorics: Contemporary Memoirs and Analyses

Working-Class Rhetorics: Contemporary Memoirs and Analyses

Working-Class Rhetorics: Contemporary Memoirs and Analyses

Overview

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, José 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789004395916
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/09/2021
Series: Critical Media Literacies Series , #9
Pages: 236
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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


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
 José 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


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

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