Introduction: (un)conventional means: recontextualizing everyday rhetorics of resistance -- The pen as sword: the Townsend letter-writing campaigns and the case of Pearl Burkhalter -- With pen and prayer: the life and ministry of Eliza P. Gurney -- "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.
Summary:
"Explores how writers, composers, and other artists without power resist dominant social, cultural, and political structures through the deployment of unconventional means and materials. To do so, Vanessa Kraemer Sohan focuses on three very unique instances, or case studies, that exemplify such rhetorical strategies--one political, one epistolary, and one artistic"-- Provided by publisher.
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