Working-Class Rhetorics

Contemporary Memoirs and Analyses
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-39591-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 541 g

Reihe: Critical Media Literacies Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Beech, Jennifer

Guy, Matthew Wayne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

PART 1: Memoirs and Personal Essays

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

PART 2: Critical Essays

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.