1st Edition

Social Movement Literature An Introduction

By Stephen Schneider Copyright 2024
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Social Movement Literature introduces readers to the study of those cultural texts that have come to define modern social movements. Looking at movements such as the US civil rights movement, gay liberation movement, environmental movement, and contemporary movement such as #metoo and Black Lives Matter, this volume focuses not just on the texts that social movements have produced, but also on... Read more

Introduction: Social Movements in the Present                    

Chapter One: Social Movements and Their Texts                

Chapter Two: How to Read a Movement Text                     

Chapter Three: Movement Frames                                        

Chapter Four: Injustice                                                                      

Chapter Five: Identity                                                                        

Chapter Six: Agency                                                                         

Chapter Seven: Memory                                                                    

Conclusion: A Movement Society?                                       

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Biography

Stephen Schneider is Associate Professor of English at the University of Louisville. He earned his PhD in English, with a focus on rhetoric and composition, from the Pennsylvania State University in 2007. His book, You Can’t Padlock an Idea: Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932-1961, was published by the University of South Carolina Press in 2014 and examines the educational programs that Highlander used to support labor and civil rights activists. His essays have appeared in College English, College Composition and Communication, Journal of Advanced Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, as well as edited volumes on the rhetoric of sit-in protests and engaged writing pedagogies.