College English
Jul 2014
One Train Can Hide Another: Critical Materialism for Public Composition
Abstract
The viral video Kony 2012 is the point of departure for our argument that composition’s public turn is marked by a concern with discursive features and digitized forms at the expense of attention to historical context and human consequences. The alternative we propose, critical materialist pedagogy, reconnects discursive and digitized arguments to the extradiscursive interests they serve. By urging teachers and students to “think through the body,” this critical materialist pedagogy tests fetishized appearances against lived reality—and reconnects public rhetoric to embodied examples of struggle and material potential for creative action.
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- College English
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- 2014-07-01
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- 10.58680/ce201425463
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Parks et al. (2019)Literacy in Composition Studies
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