A Prison Story: Public Rhetoric, Community Writing, and the Politics of Gender

Abstract

This article enacts the transgenre resources of the personal academic essay to examine the politics of gender and questions of privilege across academic and public spheres. The author interweaves prose, poetry, criticism, and argument to interrogate the practice of transcultural citizenship and the transdisciplinary project of Writing Across Communities.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2016-04-01
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10.59236/rjv15i2pp9-41
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