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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Who Says?: Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community

Who Says?: Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community

Degenaro, William

Paperback

Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture, Book 163

General ReferencePoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0822959380
ISBN13: 9780822959380
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Jan 8 2007
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In Who Says?, scholars of rhetoric, composition, and communications seek to revise the elitist rhetorical tradition by analyzing diverse topics such as settlement house movements and hip-hop culture to uncover how communities use discourse to construct working-class identity. The contributors examine the language of workers at a concrete pour, depictions of long-haul truckers, a comic book series published by the CIO, the transgressive fat bodies of Roseanne and Anna Nicole Smith, and even reality television to provide rich insights into working-class rhetorics. The chapters identify working-class tropes and discursive strategies, and connect working-class identity to issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Using a variety of approaches including ethnography, research in historic archives, and analysis of case studies, Who Says? assembles an original and comprehensive collection that is accessible to both students and scholars of class studies and rhetoric.

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