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Working-Class Rhetorics
Contemporary Memoirs and Analyses
Series: - Critical Media Literacies Series, Volume: 9
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.
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.
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 Brillâs 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.
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.
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Defining and Defying Common (Mis)Understandings of the Working Class
âJennifer Beech and Matthew Wayne Guy
1 Social Class and Sociolects
âIrvin Peckham
2 Becoming âGente Educadaâ: Navigating Academia as a Working-Class, Multiply-Marginalized Student
âChristina V. Cedillo
3 Rhetoric: From a Community Yet to Arrive
âJosé Manuel Cortez
4 Five Miles and a World Away: A Memoir
âEdward J. Whitelock
5 Feeling Like an Imposter at College
âNancy Mack
6 (Un)Belonging in Liminality: Garage Stories
âPhil Bratta
7 Book Smart AND Street Smart
âValerie Murrenus Pilmaier
8 âRemember the Spartansâ
âWilliam Thelin
9 Honest Work
âKatherine Highfill
10 Bodies in the World of Labor: Class, Affect, and Rhetoric in IWWâs âWhat is What in the World of Labor?â Poster
âPhil Bratta
11 Mind on Heaven: Working-Class Rhetorics in Serpent-Handling Rituals of Southern Appalachia
âHeather Palmer
12 White Bread as a Working-Class Symbol
âKelli R. Gill
13 âPut Some Flowers in the Graveyardâ: The Gloomy Fate of the Working Class in George A. Romeroâs Land of the Dead
âPhilip L. Simpson
14 Working Class on the Small Screen
âSarah Attfield
15 #ActorsWithDayJobs: Geoffrey Owens, Job Shaming, and the Ideology of Work
âWilliam DeGenaro
16 (Literal) Self-Exposure: Celebrity âActivismâ during Covid-19
âAbby Graves
17 Returning to Van Buren Street: A Photographic Essay
âDavid Engen
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Defining and Defying Common (Mis)Understandings of the Working Class
âJennifer Beech and Matthew Wayne Guy
PART 1: Memoirs and Personal Essays
1 Social Class and Sociolects
âIrvin Peckham
2 Becoming âGente Educadaâ: Navigating Academia as a Working-Class, Multiply-Marginalized Student
âChristina V. Cedillo
3 Rhetoric: From a Community Yet to Arrive
âJosé Manuel Cortez
4 Five Miles and a World Away: A Memoir
âEdward J. Whitelock
5 Feeling Like an Imposter at College
âNancy Mack
6 (Un)Belonging in Liminality: Garage Stories
âPhil Bratta
7 Book Smart AND Street Smart
âValerie Murrenus Pilmaier
8 âRemember the Spartansâ
âWilliam Thelin
9 Honest Work
âKatherine Highfill
PART 2: Critical Essays
10 Bodies in the World of Labor: Class, Affect, and Rhetoric in IWWâs âWhat is What in the World of Labor?â Poster
âPhil Bratta
11 Mind on Heaven: Working-Class Rhetorics in Serpent-Handling Rituals of Southern Appalachia
âHeather Palmer
12 White Bread as a Working-Class Symbol
âKelli R. Gill
13 âPut Some Flowers in the Graveyardâ: The Gloomy Fate of the Working Class in George A. Romeroâs Land of the Dead
âPhilip L. Simpson
14 Working Class on the Small Screen
âSarah Attfield
15 #ActorsWithDayJobs: Geoffrey Owens, Job Shaming, and the Ideology of Work
âWilliam DeGenaro
16 (Literal) Self-Exposure: Celebrity âActivismâ during Covid-19
âAbby Graves
17 Returning to Van Buren Street: A Photographic Essay
âDavid Engen
Index
All seeking understanding of how working-class is theorized, experienced, and represented, and anyone concerned with the power of rhetoric to fight for equitable distribution of income and class power.