English Faculty Book Gallery
Beyond Postprocess
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Beyond Postprocess offers a vigorous, provocative discussion of postprocess theory in its contemporary profile. Fueled by something like a fundamental refusal to see writing as self-evident, reducible, and easily explicable, the contributors rethink postprocess, suggesting that there is no easily defined moment or method that could be called postprocess. Instead, each contribution to this collection provides a unique and important example of what work beyond postprocess could be.
Since postprocess theory in writing studies first challenged traditional conceptions of writing and the subject who writes, developments there have continued to push theorists of writing in a number of promising theoretical directions. Spaces for writing have arisen that radically alter ideological notions of space, rational thinking, intellectual property and politics, and epistemologies; and new media, digital, and visual rhetorics have increasingly complicated the scene, as well.
Contributors to Beyond Postprocess reconsider writing and writing studies through posthumanism, ecology, new media, materiality, multimodal and digital writing, institutional critique, and postpedagogy. Through the lively and provocative character of these essays, Beyond Postprocess aims to provide a critical site for nothing less than the broad reevaluation of what it means to study writing today. Its polyvocal considerations and conclusions invest the volume with a unique potential to describe not what that field of study should be, but what it has the capacity to create. The central purpose of Beyond Postprocess is to unleash this creative potential.
ISBN
978-0874218312
Publication Date
6-2011
Publisher
Utah State University Press
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Nonfiction
Recommended Citation
Rice,, J. A. Editor; Dobrin,, Sidney I. Editor; and Vastp;a., Michael Editor, "Beyond Postprocess" (2011). English Faculty Book Gallery. 26.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/english_book/26
Comments
J. A. Rice is assistant professor of English at Western Kentucky University. His research focuses on composition and pedagogical theory, and has appeared in journals such as Business Communication Quarterly, Composition Forum, and Educational Theory and Philosophy.