{"product_id":"working-class-rhetorics-contemporary-memoirs-and-analyses-9789004395916","title":"Working-Class Rhetorics: Contemporary Memoirs and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535923446103,"sku":"9789004395916","price":122.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/working-class-rhetorics-contemporary-memoirs-and-analyses-9789004395916","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}