Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Images
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: What Does Democracy Look Like?
PART I: Mapping the Political Turn
2 Composition’s Left and the Struggle for Revolutionary Consciousness
3 “Organize as If It Were Possible to Create a Movement That Will Change the World”: An Interview with Angela Davis
4 Marxist Ethics for Uncertain Times
5 A Pedagogy for the Political Turn
PART II: Variations on the Political Turn
6 “I’d Like to Overthrow Capitalism, But Meanwhile, I Would Like the Nazis to be Completely Demoralized”: An Interview with Dana L. Cloud
7 Audience Addressed? Audience Invoked? Audience Organized!
8 Taking a Lead from Student Movements in a “Political Turn”
9 Nudging Ourselves Toward a Political Turn
10 Sustainable Audiences/Renewable Products: Penn State’s Student Farm, Business Writing, and Community Outreach
11 The Political Turn and the Two-Year College: Equity- Centered Partnerships and the Opportunities of Democratic Reform
PART III: Taking the Political Turn
12 How Does It Feel to be a Problem at the 9/11 Museum?
13 Dismantling the Wall: Analyzing the Rhetorics of Shock and Writing Political Transformation
14 Pass the Baton: Lessons from Historic Examples of the Political Turn, 1967–1968
15 The Visa Border Labyrinths: 310 Colombian and U.S. Artists and Scholars Write Their Way Through
16 Conclusion: Further Notes on the Political Turn
Index