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Item Details
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COMPELLED TO WRITE
ALTERNATIVE RHETORIC IN THEORY AND PRACTICE |
| By: |
David L. Wallace |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£25.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0874218128 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780874218121 |
| Publisher: |
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2011 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Synopsis: |
David Wallace argues that any understanding of writing studies must include the conception of discourse as an embodied force with real consequences for real people. Informed in important ways by queer theory, Wallace calls to account users of dominant discourses and at the same time articulates a theory base from which to interpret "alternative rhetoric." To examine the practice of writing from varied margins of society, Compelled to Write offers careful readings of four exemplar American writers, each of whom felt compelled within their own time and place to write in response to systemic injustices in American society.Sarah Grimke, a privileged white woman advocating for abolition, is forced to defend her right to speak as a woman; Frederick Douglass begins his public career almost as a curiosity (the articulate ex-slave)and ends it as one of the most important rhetors in American history; Gloria Anzaldua writes not only in multiple languages and dialects but from marginalized positions related to gender, race, class, sexual identity, and physical able-ness; David Sedaris uses his privileged position as a middle-class white male humorist to speak unabashedly of his sexuality, his addictions, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. Through these writers, Wallace explores a range of strategies that comprise alternative rhetorical practice, and demonstrates how such practice is inflected by social constraints on rhetorical agency and by how writers employ alternative discourses to resist those constraints. Grounding and personalizing Compelled to Write with rich material from his own teaching and his own experience, Wallace considers a number of implications for teachers of writing. |
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US |
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Utah State University Press |
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Returnable |
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