Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life

Looks at many instances of writing as punishment, including forced tattooing, drunk shaming, court-ordered letters of apology, and social media shaming, with the aim of bringing understanding and recognition to the coupling of literacy and subjection.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. "I Will Not Chew Gum in Class": Punishing Children with Writing
• Chapter 2. Shame Parades
• Chapter 3. Writing on the Wasted
• Chapter 4. Forced Tattooing
• Chapter 5. Writing, Self-Reflection, and Justice
• Conclusion: Seeing Writing in a Dim Light
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index




About the author










Spencer Schaffner is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the author of Binocular Vision: The Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides. His work has appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Composition Studies; and Discourse and Society.



Summary

Looks at many instances of writing as punishment, including forced tattooing, drunk shaming, court-ordered letters of apology, and social media shaming, with the aim of bringing understanding and recognition to the coupling of literacy and subjection.

Product details

• Authors: Spencer Schaffner
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780817359553
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5955-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 152 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 220 g
• Illustrations: 7 black & white figures
• Series: Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr; Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries