A Charge for Change: A Selection of Essays from the 20th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America

Edited by Elizabethada A. Wright and David Beard Information and Pricing978-1-64317-417-4(paperback, $29.95); 978-1-64317-099-2 (PDF, $0); 978-1-64317-100-5 (EPUB, $0) © 2023 by the Rhetoric Society of America and the individual authors. 212 pages, with notes, illustrations, and bibliography. Parlor Press donates all proceeds from sale of the paperback edition to the Rhetoric Society of America. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book A Charge For Change brings together eighteen essays from the Rhetoric Society of America’s 20th Biennial Conference, held at the end of the pandemic period. The Conference call asked for participants to “engage with rhetoric’s purposes, demands, and energies” as the world moved toward a “post-pandemic” world. The first section of essays confronts issues that existed long before the COVID-19 pandemic but were exacerbated by it: race and colonialism. Each essay offers suggestions on confront