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A Literary Exploration of Chicana Coming of Age, Identity, and Belonging

Letters Covering Tyndall's Infamous Belfast Address

A Revealing New Biography of a Pathbreaking Female Figure in Modern Indian History

Offers a New Rhetorical Repertoire for Interactive Writing in Social Media and Other Digital Spaces. Rhetoric and composition scholar Donna LeCourt combines theoretical inquiry, qualitative research, and rhetorical analysis to examine what it means to write for the ?public? in an age when the distinctions between public and private have eroded. Public spaces are increasingly privatized, and individual subjectivities have been reconstructed according to market terms. Part critique and part road map, Social Mediations begins with a critical reading of digital public pedagogies, then turns to developing a new theory that can guide a more effective writing pedagogy. LeCourt offers a theory based in embodied relationality that uses information economies to develop public spheres. She highlights how information commodities generate value through circulation, orchestrate relationships among people, and support unequal power structures. By demonstrating how we can use information capital for social change rather than market expansion, writers and readers are encouraged to seek out encounters with cultural and political impact. AUTHOR: Donna LeCourt is professor and chair of the English Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, digital writing, teaching writing, and issues of difference in writing studies. She is the author of Identity Matters: Schooling the Student Body in Academic Discourse and coeditor of Rewriting Success: Constructing Careers and Institutional Change in Rhetoric and Composition.

Provides a Detailed Analysis of Argentine and Brazilian Political Economy Over the Last Three Decades

Demonstrates How Public Opinion Can Be Brought to Bear against Powerful Nations

An Original Intervention into Theorizations of Buenos Aires's Urban History

Captures the Complexity of Foucault's Political Engagements and Breaks with the Orthodox View That He Was Anti-Marxist

An Introduction to the Life, Work, and "Difficulty" of Reginald Shepherd

Between Life and Death, Joy Links Human Experience to Animal Existence

An Odyssey through Yearning, Transformation, and the Liminal Space that Connects Us All

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba

A Pittsburgh Sports History Centering Issues of Race and Economic Disparity

Meditative Poems That Ask, What If "We Change and Change / But Don't Change Back?"

Intensely Emotional and Bitingly Witty Poems about Grief, Family, and Joy

How Pittsburgh Positioned Itself as a Center of Culture and Innovation at the Turn of the Century

Poems about the Freedom That Arises When We Finally Let Go

A Poetic Autobiography--Intimate, Sorrowful, and Funny

Winner of the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

A Bilingual Collection of Poems for a Dispirited Society

Fills the Gaps of an Important Modernist Brazilian Writer's Early Career and Illuminates Recurring Themes of His Later Works

Explains the Nuts-and-Bolts of Collective Indoctrination and Political Integration Programs and the Resulting Cultural Changes

How Indigenous People Used Feathers as a Significant Way of Symbolic Communication in the Andes

An Innovative Study on Historical Multiculturalism in Central and Eastern Europe

Winner of the 2023 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

A Penetrating Exploration of the Soviet Secret Police Apparatus

Traces the Arc of Pittsburgh's Rise from Frontier Outpost to Dynamic Industrial Region

A Methodological Study of Going to the Movies as Cultural and Societal Practice