Rhetoric and Storytelling Within the U.s. Asylum Process - Shelter Rhetorics

This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they need to write in order to stay.

List of contents

1. A Short Tour of the Project
2. La Mesa Redonda: A Located-Listening Approach to Knowledge-Building
3. En la Frontera: Resisting Spatial Conventions
4. Public Narratives of Asylum and Silence as an Echo of Displacement
5. Cooking, Crocheting, y Cantando: Composing Agency through Routine
6. The Long Path Out through Advocacy-Building

About the author

Mónica Reyes is Assistant Professor in the Writing, Rhetoric & Discourse Department at DePaul University. Her research interests include cultural rhetorics; rhetorical ecologies; critical refugee studies; and transnational feminist rhetorical literacies. Her work has been featured most recently in Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts (2024); Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing & Culture (2020); and Postcolonial Text (2019). She is also a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project.

Summary

This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they need to write in order to stay.

Product details

• Authors: Mónica Reyes, Monica (Depaul University Reyes
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032382852
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3238285-2
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, PERFORMING ARTS / General, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Migration, immigration & emigration, Communication Studies, Other performing arts, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Political campaigning & advertising, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Political campaigning and advertising, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General