Community Literacy Journal Apr 2021 Open Access

Public Memory as Community-Engaged Writing: Composing Difficult Histories on Campus

Amy J. Lueck ; Matthew Kroot ; Lee Panich

Abstract

Colleges and universities across the United States are recognizing the public memory function of their campus spaces and facing difficult decisions about how to represent the ugly sides of their histories within their landscapes of remembrance. Official administrative responses to demands for greater inclusiveness are often slow and conservative in nature. Using our own institution and our work with local Indigenous community members as a case study, we argue that students and faculty can employ community-engaged, public-facing, digital composing projects to effectively challenge entrenched institutional interests that may elide or even misrepresent difficult histories in public memory works. Such projects are a nimble and accessible means of creating counter-narratives to intervene in public memory discourses. Additionally, by engaging in public discourses, such work helps promote meaningful student rhetorical learning in courses across disciplines.

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Community Literacy Journal
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2021-04-01
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10.25148/clj.15.2.009618
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rhetorical criticism service learning qualitative research digital rhetoric public rhetoric
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