Writing Democracy : The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era (Paperback)

1. Introduction: "What Does Democracy Look Like?"Shannon Carter, Deborah Mutnick, Steve Parks, and Jessica PauszekPart I: Mapping the Political Turn2. Composition’s Left and the Struggle for Revolutionary ConsciousnessJohn Trimbur3. "Organize as If It Were Possible to Create a Movement That Will Change the World": An Interview with Angela DavisLaToya Lydia Sawyer and Ben Kuebrich4. Marxist Ethics for Uncertain TimesNancy Welch5. A Pedagogy for the Political TurnDeborah MutnickPart II: Variations on the Political Turn6. "I'd Like to Overthrow Capitalism, But Meanwhile, I Would Like the Nazis to be Completely Demoralized": An Interview with Dana L. CloudSteve Parks7. Audience Addressed? Audience Invoked? Audience Organized!Seth Kahn8. Legibility, Failure, and Political TurningVani Kannan9. Nudging Ourselves Toward a Political TurnPaul Feigenbaum10. Sustainable Audiences/Renewable Products: Penn State’s Student Farm, Business Writing, and Community OutreachGeoffrey Clegg11. The Political Turn and the Two-Year College: Equity-Centred Partnerships and the Opportunities of Democratic ReformDarin JensenPart III: Taking the Political Turn12. How Does it Feel to be a Problem at the 9/11 Museum?Tamara Issak13. Dismantling the Wall: Analysing the Rhetorics of Shock and Writing Political TransformationSteven Alvarez14.Pass the Baton: Lessons from Historic Examples of the Political Turn, 1967-68Shannon Carter15. The Visa Labyrinths: Writing Our Way Through the U.S.-Columbian BorderTamera Marko16. Conclusion: Further Notes on the Political TurnDeborah Mutnick, Shannon Carter, Steve Parks, Jessica Pauszek