{"product_id":"compelled-to-write","title":"Compelled to Write","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Wallace argues that any understanding of writing studies must  include the conception of discourse as an embodied force with real  consequences for real people. Informed in important ways by queer  theory, Wallace calls to account users of dominant discourses and at the  same time articulates a theory base from which to interpret  \"alternative rhetoric.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo examine the practice of writing from varied margins of society, \u003ci\u003eCompelled to Write\u003c\/i\u003e  offers careful readings of four exemplar American writers, each of whom  felt compelled within their own time and place to write in response to  systemic injustices in American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Grimké, a privileged white woman advocating for abolition, is  forced to defend her right to speak as a woman; Frederick Douglass  begins his public career almost as a curiosity (the articulate ex-slave)  and ends it as one of the most important rhetors in American history;  Gloria Anzaldúa writes not only in multiple languages and dialects but  from marginalized positions related to gender, race, class, sexual  identity, and physical abled-ness; David Sedaris uses his privileged  position as a middle-class white male humorist to speak unabashedly of  his sexuality, his addictions, and obsessive-compulsive personality  disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough these writers, Wallace explores a range of strategies that  comprise alternative rhetorical practice, and demonstrates how such  practice is inflected by social constraints on rhetorical agency and by  how writers employ alternative discourses to resist those constraints.  Grounding and personalizing \u003ci\u003eCompelled to Write\u003c\/i\u003e with rich  material from his own teaching and his own experience, Wallace considers  a number of implications for teachers of writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"David L Wallace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54282921476388,"sku":"9780874218121","price":25.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0880\/7635\/3828\/files\/CoreSourceHub_74223058-a9fe-45db-bc29-6a0e7bd33a8f.jpg?v=1780558825","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/compelled-to-write","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}