American Women Activists and Autobiography: Rhetorical Lives (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)

"American Women Activists and Autobiography examines the feminist rhetorics that emerge in six very different activists autobiographies, as they simultaneously tell the stories of unconventional womens lives and manifest the authors arguments for social and political change, as well as provide blueprints for creating tectonic shifts in American society. Exploring self-narratives by six diverse women at the forefront of radical social change since 1900 - Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells, Emma Goldman, Dorothy Day, Angela Davis, Mary Crow Dog, and Betty Friedan - the author offers a breadth of perspectives to current dialogues on motherhood, essentialism, race, class, and feminism, and highlights the shifts in situated feminist rhetorics through the course of the last one hundred years. This book will be a timely instructional resource for all scholars and graduate students in rhetorical studies, composition, American literature, women studies, feminist rhetorics, and social justice"--

American Women Activists and Autobiography (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)

Biographies & Memoirs

Ostman, Heather

Community & Culture

Routledge

The influence of Latin American writers—as well as other immigrant writers and their first-generation peers—has reframed the literary lens to include multiple views and codify the shift away from the tradition of white male writers who formed the core of the American literary canon for generations. Junot Díaz is one of the most prominent and influential writers in contemporary American literature. A first-generation Dominican American, the New Jersey native is at the forefront of a literary renaissance, portraying the significant demographic shifts taking place in the United States.In The Fiction of Junot Díaz: Reframing the Lens, Heather Ostman closely examines the linguistic, popular culture, and literary references woven throughout Díaz’s fiction, including the short story collections Drown and This Is How You Lose Her, as well as the Pulitzer prize–winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Ostman also considers Díaz’s work as it relates to issues of identity, citizenship, culture, aesthetics, language, class, gender, and race.By exploring how Díaz reframes the immigrant narrative—highlighting his innovative linguistic and genre-based approach—Ostman provides crucial insights into how Díaz’s writings relate to key issues in today’s world. The Fiction of Junot Díaz will be of interest to scholars and students of the immigrant experience as well as fans of this gifted writer.

The Fiction of Junot Díaz: Reframing the Lens (Contemporary American Literature)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION | Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven | WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE offers a comprehensive study of the administration of writing programs at public, two-year institutions. Author Heather Ostman describes the community college's diverse students, who shape its mission with their changing needs and demographics. A history of the community college places the institution within the broader context of American higher education and is followed by practical information about the day-to-day work of the WPA at the two-year college. WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE also addresses current issues and concerns faced by WPAs and writing instructors, including the politics of and future for composition at community colleges. Writing Program Administration and the Community College will deepen the understanding of composition and WPA work at this institution for all WPAs-at community colleges and four-year institutions, composition instructors, college administrators, and graduate students pursuing careers in the field. | HEATHER OSTMAN is an assistant professor and the assistant chair of the SUNY Westchester Community College English Department, where she teaches courses in writing and literature. Before joining Westchester, she served as the writing program coordinator at the Metropolitan Manhattan campus of the State University of New York's Empire State College. Her work has appeared in essay collections and in journals such as College Composition and Communication, Women's Studies, Prose Studies, Philological Quarterly, and New Writing. She is the editor of Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Essays (2008) and serves as the President of the Kate Chopin International Society. She is also the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities and the Westchester Community College Foundation Faculty Excellence Award in Scholarship. In 2012, she and her colleague Frank Madden were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant for Two-Year Colleges to establish and co-direct the SUNY Westchester Community College Humanities Institute, which provides curricula, events, and pedagogical training in the humanities with an emphasis on the immigrant experience in the United States.

Writing Program Administration and the Community College

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Parlor Press

WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION | Series Editors: Susan H. McLeod and Margot Soven | WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE offers a comprehensive study of the administration of writing programs at public, two-year institutions. Author Heather Ostman describes the community college's diverse students, who shape its mission with their changing needs and demographics. A history of the community college places the institution within the broader context of American higher education and is followed by practical information about the day-to-day work of the WPA at the two-year college. WRITING PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE also addresses current issues and concerns faced by WPAs and writing instructors, including the politics of and future for composition at community colleges. Writing Program Administration and the Community College will deepen the understanding of composition and WPA work at this institution for all WPAs-at community colleges and four-year institutions, composition instructors, college administrators, and graduate students pursuing careers in the field. | HEATHER OSTMAN is an assistant professor and the assistant chair of the SUNY Westchester Community College English Department, where she teaches courses in writing and literature. Before joining Westchester, she served as the writing program coordinator at the Metropolitan Manhattan campus of the State University of New York's Empire State College. Her work has appeared in essay collections and in journals such as College Composition and Communication, Women's Studies, Prose Studies, Philological Quarterly, and New Writing. She is the editor of Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Essays (2008) and serves as the President of the Kate Chopin International Society. She is also the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities and the Westchester Community College Foundation Faculty Excellence Award in Scholarship. In 2012, she and her colleague Frank Madden were awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant for Two-Year Colleges to establish and co-direct the SUNY Westchester Community College Humanities Institute, which provides curricula, events, and pedagogical training in the humanities with an emphasis on the immigrant experience in the United States.

Parlor Pr

The Second Chance Home for Girls is a novel of friendship and freedom, loss and grief, as its main character, a teenager named Summer, is transformed into the parent she never had. The novel opens with the arrival of a teenage girl, Lorilee, who seems peculiar to the girls and staff at the Second Chance Home for Girls, a halfway house for troubled teenaged girls, placed there by bewildered parents and frustrated courts, located on a desolate Texas prairie; wide, flat, and empty, every way for as far as an eye can see. Feared and loathed by most of the Second Chance residents, Lorilee becomes the catalyst for Summer's deep soul-searching and ultimately freedom when violence escalates, and catastrophe determines the outcome of her life and the lives of the others.

The Second Chance Home for Girls

Literary

Open Hand Press

The Second Chance Home for Girls in Texas imposes a 12-step doctrine and Christian exhortation on a dozen teens with histories of substance abuse and other failures to conform. The proprietor, Miss Sallyanne, presides over a regimen of chores, self-affirmation chants-"God loves me, and so do I!"-and group therapy sessions in which she pressures girls to reveal their sinful experiences with drugs and (usually abusive) sex. Into the snake pit comes Lorilee, who is preternaturally self-possessed despite the needle tracks on her arms and her claim to have borne a son by her own brother. She breaks rules with impunity, knows secrets that she shouldn't, and impudently corrects the Reverend, Sallyanne's father, when his fire-and-brimstone sermon misstates the Bible.\nThe narrative unwinds in the point-of-view voices of several residents of Second Chance. A chorus of girls condemns Lorilee as a stuck-up bitch; the seen-it-all cook, Starlene, thinks the teen is the devil; Summer, a quiet girl who writes everything in her diary, is both unnerved and inspired by Lorilee's promise of forgiveness and freedom from her past, a vow that leads to violence.

Kate Chopin and Catholicism

This book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in Kate Chopin's fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of her novels and numerous short stories, Kate Chopin and Catholicism looks at the ways Chopin represented Catholicism in her work as a literary device that served on multiple levels: as an aesthetic within local color depictions of Louisiana, as a trope for illuminating the tensions surrounding nineteenth-century women's struggles for autonomy, as a critique of the Catholic dogma that subordinated authenticity and physical and emotional pleasure, and as it pointed to the distinction between religious doctrine and mystical experience, and enabled the articulation of spirituality beyond the context of the Church. This book reveals Chopin to be not only a literary visionary but a writer who saw divinity in the natural world.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

From the Back Cover\n‘Heather Ostman’s Kate Chopin and Catholicism is meaty, interesting, and 
provocative. It may change the way we all read this marvel of a writer.’ 
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at 
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and author of Hemingway’s 
Wars: The Public and Private Battles (2017)\n‘Heather Ostman’s Kate Chopin and Catholicism heralds an innovative\nmethodology with rich possibilities for studies of Kate Chopin and American 
realism. As Chopin became immersed in the studies of Darwin, she drew away 
from practicing Catholicism. Ostman demonstrates how Chopin used Catholicism 
as a device to examine social issues and critique the schism between physical and 
corporeal pleasure. Ostman exemplifies how Chopin leveraged Catholicism to 
arrive at a revolutionary and unorthodox definition of mysticism and spirituality.’ 
― Kate O’Donoghue, Associate Professor of English, Suffolk County 
Community College, USA\nThis book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in Kate 
Chopin’s fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in the 
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of her 
novels and numerous short stories, Kate Chopin and Catholicism looks at the 
ways Chopin represented Catholicism in her work as a literary device that served 
on multiple levels: as an aesthetic within local color depictions of Louisiana, as a 
trope for illuminating the tensions surrounding nineteenth-century women’s 
struggles for autonomy, as a critique of the Catholic dogma that subordinated 
authenticity and physical and emotional pleasure, and as it pointed to the 
distinction between religious doctrine and mystical experience, and enabled the 
articulation of spirituality beyond the context of the Church. This book reveals 
Chopin to be not only a literary visionary but a writer who saw divinity in the 
natural world.\nThis book explores the Catholic aesthetic and mystical dimensions in Kate 
Chopin’s fiction within the context of an evolving American Catholicism in the 
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of her 
novels and numerous short stories, Kate Chopin and Catholicism looks at the 
ways Chopin represented Catholicism in her work as a literary device that served 
on multiple levels: as an aesthetic within local color depictions of Louisiana, as a 
trope for illuminating the tensions surrounding nineteenth-century women’s 
struggles for autonomy, as a critique of the Catholic dogma that subordinated 
authenticity and physical and emotional pleasure, and as it pointed to the 
distinction between religious doctrine and mystical experience, and enabled the 
articulation of spirituality beyond the context of the Church. This book reveals 
Chopin to be not only a literary visionary but a writer who saw divinity in the 
natural world.

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American Women Activists and Autobiography (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)

American Women Activists and Autobiography: Rhetorical Lives (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)

The Fiction of Junot Díaz: Reframing the Lens (Contemporary American Literature)

Writing Program Administration and the Community College

Writing Program Administration and the Community College

The Second Chance Home for Girls

The Second Chance Home for Girls

Kate Chopin and Catholicism

Kate Chopin and Catholicism