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Vernacular Insurrections
(April 2013)
Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies
Carmen Kynard - Author
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Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.
Carmen Kynard locates literacy in the twenty-first century at the onset of new thematic and disciplinary imperatives brought into effect by Black Freedom Movements. Kynard argues that we must begin to see how a series of vernacular insurrections—protests and new ideologies developed in relation to the work of Black Freedom Movements—have shaped our imaginations, p...(Read More) |
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Zines in Third Space
(October 2012)
Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric
Adela C. Licona - Author
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Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
Zines in Third Space develops third-space theory with a practical engagement in the subcultural space of zines as alternative media produced specifically by feminists and queers of color. Adela C. Licona explores how borderlands rhetorics function in feminist and queer of-color zines to challenge dominant knowledges as well a...(Read More) |
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Coach
(March 2011)
25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference
Andrew Blauner - Editor
David Duchovny - Preface
Bill Bradley - Foreword by
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Twenty-five celebrated writers share the encouraging words and timeless wisdom of the coaches who influenced their lives.
For everyone who has heard the beloved whistle at the end of a grueling practice, only to eagerly await the next, Coach is a treasure trove of insights and wisdom from the mouths of those we cherish, seen through the eyes of those we admire most. This book offers the reflections of twenty-five notable...(Read More) |
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Sound-Bite Saboteurs
(March 2010)
Public Discourse, Education, and the State of Democratic Deliberation
Julie Drew - Author
William Lyons - Author
Lance Svehla - Author
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Argues that the reliance on sound bites in recent political discourse is harmful to the democratic process.
Sound-Bite Saboteurs examines the emergence of a multifaceted, multimedia culture that encourages the use of sound bites to silence one’s opponents at the expense of democratic deliberation and debate. No simple partisan phenomenon or mere attempt to “spin” a particular issue, sound-bite sabotage ...(Read More) |
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Making Poems
(February 2010)
Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets
Todd F. Davis - Editor
Erin Murphy - Editor
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Contemporary poets offer behind-the-scenes perspectives on the poetic process.
This diverse collection of poems and companion essays by forty nationally and internationally known poets allows readers to experience the creative process through the eyes and voice of each poet. No matter how often we are told that revision is an essential component of poetic composition, it can be difficult to resist the temptation to think of the poe...(Read More) |
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Writing-Based Teaching
(November 2009)
Essential Practices and Enduring Questions
Teresa Vilardi - Editor
Mary Chang - Editor
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Offers candid, first-hand accounts of what it is like to make writing central to teaching in secondary schools and colleges.
Written by the team at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking, this book is designed to provide practical guidance regarding the challenges and potential of writing-based teaching, and suggestions for how to adapt the practices to particular classroom situations. The contributors share candid...(Read More) |
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Active Voices
(July 2009)
Composing a Rhetoric for Social Movements
Sharon McKenzie Stevens - Editor
Patricia M. Malesh - Editor
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Explores the relationship between social movements and rhetorical theory and practice.
From suffragettes to vegans, participants in social movements strive to change the worlds they inhabit, whether by direct action, rallies, marches, organized work stoppages, or engaging government power in service of their aims. Active Voices explores both the rhetorical dimensions of such activist activities and the integral role of rheto...(Read More) |
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Letters to a Best Friend
(July 2009)
Richard Selzer - Author
Peter Josyph - Edited and with a preface by
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A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.
In 1988, when author and former surgeon Richard Selzer answered a letter from Peter Josyph, a New York artist he had met, he did not know that he was embarking on the most enduring correspondence of his life. In thousands of letters, written in longhand over the course of two decades, Selzer devoted himself to ...(Read More) |
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Feel These Words
(June 2009)
Writing in the Lives of Urban Youth
Susan Weinstein - Author
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An in-depth look at the creative writing practices of nine Chicago youths.
Feel These Words is the story of nine young people from Chicago—Jig, Crazy, TeTe, Mekanism, Robbie, Marta, Patricia, Jose, and Dave—who regularly write poetry and/or song lyrics, but not for school. The Writers, as author Susan Weinstein calls them, are skilled in a variety of literacy-centered discourses through which they develop s...(Read More) |
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Ecosee
(April 2009)
Image, Rhetoric, Nature
Sidney I. Dobrin - Editor
Sean Morey - Editor
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Examines the rhetorical role of images in communicating environmental ideas.
How do supporters of the environmental movement manipulate and promote images of “nature” to achieve support and sympathy? From the Sierra Club’s use of Ansel Adams’s stark and pristine portraits of the western United States to close-ups of plastic bottles and dead fish floating in Rust Belt waterways, visual depictions of landsc...(Read More) |
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