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Lives, letters, and quilts : women and everyday rhetorics of resistance / Vanessa Sohan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rhetoric, culture, and social critiquePublication details: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817392673
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • P301 .L584 2019
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Contents:
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.
Subject: "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"--
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction P301.5.67 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1129015659

"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"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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