{"product_id":"engaging-museums-rhetorical-education-and-social-justice-9780809338504","title":"Engaging Museums: Rhetorical Education and Social Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lauren Obermark\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Rhetoric\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","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47596101927063,"sku":"9780809338504","price":4703.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780809338504.webp?v=1774992502","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/engaging-museums-rhetorical-education-and-social-justice-9780809338504","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}