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Hearing the Hurt
Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement
University of Alabama Press
Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.
Poets Beyond the Barricade
Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960
University of Alabama Press
A study of how poetry and discussions of it shape public consciousness, from the socially volatile era of the 1960s to the War on Terror today.
What Are Stem Cells?
Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics
University of Alabama Press
In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have waged an ethical debate regarding the development and research of embryonic stem cells. On the one hand, does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? On the other hand, do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm the patients who might otherwise benefit?
Global Memoryscapes
Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age
Edited by Kendall R. Phillips and G. Mitchell Reyes
University of Alabama Press
Global Memoryscapesis a collection of eight essays examining the effects of a global society on the collective memories and identities of individual cultures.
Modern Occult Rhetoric
Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century
By Joshua Gunn
University of Alabama Press
A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse.
The House of My Sojourn
Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority
University of Alabama Press
Envisions the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically, has made room for women but has also denied them the authority and agency to speak from within
Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity
The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror
University of Alabama Press
An investigation into the culture and mythology of baseball, a study of its limits and failures, and an invitation to remake the game in a more democratic way
Places of Public Memory
The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
University of Alabama Press
A sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric
Scientific Characters
Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research
By Lisa Keränen
University of Alabama Press
Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: “Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade.” Moving back and forth between news coverage, medical journals, letters to the editor, and oncology pamphlets, Lisa Keränen draws insights from rhetoric, literary studies, sociology, and science studies to analyze the roles of character in shaping the outcomes of the “Datagate” controversy.
Public Modalities
Edited by Daniel C. Brouwer and Robert Asen
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates a modalities approach to the study of publics
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