College Composition and Communication Feb 2005

Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Post-Publicity Era

Nancy Welch

Abstract

At the same time that compositionists have shown a renewed interest in public writing, neoliberal social and economic policies have dramatically shrunk the spaces in which most students’ voices can be heard. In this essay I argue that from twentiethcentury working-class struggles in the U.S. we and our students can acquire the tools necessary to work against this latest wave of economic privatization and concomitant suppression of public voice and rights. If we can resist the common academic assertion that we live today in a radically distinct postmodern, postindustrial society, we can return to capitalism’s long history for examples of the creative and persistent ways in which ordinary people have organized to claim living room.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2005-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20054003
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality voice and style

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