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Lesh, Charles Notto.

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Writing Spaces and Places: A GeoEthnography of Graffiti Writing in Boston.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Writing Spaces and Places: A GeoEthnography of Graffiti Writing in Boston./
Author:	Lesh, Charles Notto.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-09A(E).
Subject:	Rhetoric. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10102558
ISBN:	9781339662619

Writing Spaces and Places: A GeoEthnography of Graffiti Writing in Boston.
Lesh, Charles Notto.

Writing Spaces and Places: A GeoEthnography of Graffiti Writing in Boston. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 266 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northeastern University, 2016.

As its central and motivating claim, this dissertation argues that writing makes space. Through an ethnographic examination of graffiti writing in Boston and the various social spaces it produces---the blackbook, the city, and the train---my work here is intended to alert scholars of writing and rhetoric to the ways in which rhetorical activity not only exists in space, requires space, and negotiates space, but also makes spaces that promote, facilitate, and limit particular assemblages of social relations. While previous work in rhetoric and composition has persuasively argued that space informs, shapes, and produces (the conditions for) writing, I argue in this dissertation that writing informs, shapes, and produces space. I contend that graffiti writing provides an instructive example of the ways in which communities of writers use resources available to them to alter their spatial realities and challenge larger spatial processes. Through close ethnographic work with graffiti writers, I demonstrate how communities of writers---particularly those with limited spaces for rhetorical work---must think in terms of spatial production as well as spatial impact and negotiation. Graffiti writing provides a rich example of this rhetorical spatial production: a community of writers working to produce alternative spatial experiences within spaces and places designed to erase, marginalize, or eradicate their textual engagements.

ISBN: 9781339662619Subjects--Topical Terms:

516647
Rhetoric.

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