Lives, Letters, and Quilts: Women and Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance

Author:   Vanessa Kraemer Sohan
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
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9780817320386


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 December 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Vanessa Kraemer Sohan
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 914.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780817320386


ISBN 10:   0817320385
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. (Un)Conventional Means: Recontextualizing Everyday Rhetorics of Resistance Chapter 1. The Pen as Sword: The Townsend Letter-Writing Campaigns and the Case of Pearl Burkhalter Chapter 2. With Pen and Prayer: The Life and Ministry of Eliza P. Gurney Chapter 3. '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 Notes Bibliography Index

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Lives, Letters, and Quilts is an engaging read. The case study chapters provide interesting background and analysis, and as a study of quotidian forms of rhetorical resistance, this book makes a valuable contribution. - Robert E. Terrill, author of Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment and Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship


Lives, Letters, and Quilts is an engaging read. The case study chapters provide interesting background and analysis, and as a study of quotidian forms of rhetorical resistance, this book makes a valuable contribution. --Robert E. Terrill, author of Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment and Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship Lives, Letters, and Quilts makes a considerable intervention in the history of rhetoric, focusing on over 150 years of letter-writing campaigns, practices of contemplation, and quiltmaking. Sohan's rousing cast of characters brings translingual aptitudes to civic deliberation, persuading as forcefully through cloth, design, and stillness as through words. --Christopher Carter, author of Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema In Lives, Letters, and Quilts, Vanessa Kraemer Sohan reveals how both the pen and the needle are mightier than the sword for women crafting persuasive arguments. For those interested in the history of women's everyday rhetorics of resistance and rebellion, this is the monograph to read. --Maureen Daly Goggin, coauthor of Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950


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Vanessa Kraemer Sohan is associate professor of English at Florida International University. Her work has appeared in College English, Pedagogy, and JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics.

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