{"product_id":"engaging-museums-rhetorical-education-and-social-justice-paperback","title":"Engaging Museums: Rhetorical Education and Social Justice - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLauren Obermark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining rhetorical engagement with difficult topics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Museums offer an opportunity to reenvision rhetorical education through their address of hard, discomforting histories that challenge visitors to confront traumatic events and work toward a better future. While both museum studies and rhetoric center the audience in their scholarship and practices, this volume engages across and between these disciplines, allowing for a fuller theorization and enactment of rhetorical education's connections to social justice.\u003ci\u003e Engaging Museums\u003c\/i\u003e works to fill gaps between the fields of rhetoric and social justice by going beyond classrooms to sites of public memory represented in museums. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume presents three distinct, diverse case studies of recently established historical museums taking on the rhetorically complex tasks of representing traumatic events: the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the National World War I Museum, and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum. Through rhetorical and comparative analysis of data collected from the museums and intersectional transdisciplinary frameworks, each chapter theorizes aspects of rhetoric--namely identification, collectivity, and memory--bringing rhetorical theory more firmly into current conversations surrounding civic engagement and social justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Obermark's weave of voices and perspectives concludes with a critical focus on how memory may serve as a generative pedagogical topos for both public rhetoric and university-based rhetoric and writing classrooms. This book helps scholars, students, and teachers bring what museums do--difficult, complicated pedagogical work representing hard history--back inside the classroom and further into our civic discourse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren E. Obermark\u003c\/b\u003e, associate professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Rhetoric of Participation: Interrogating Commonplaces in and beyond the Classroom. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has published on rhetoric, pedagogy, social justice, and public memory in\u003ci\u003e Rhetoric Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCollege English\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReflections\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.21 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 13, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42728124055615,"sku":"9780809338504","price":97.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8c8c7d669374c06d2012328fa41f0af2.webp?v=1765117354","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/engaging-museums-rhetorical-education-and-social-justice-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}