COURSE: English 727: Digital Humanities
MEDIUM: Graphic Essay
DESCRIPTION:
In this piece, I have taken a longer text-based paper and transformed it into a multimodal rhetorical practice.
The paper discusses how African American farmers in the Jim Crow era South began using filmstrips, paired with audio and text, to more broadly disseminate literacy and “how to do things” – these needs-based activities dealt with forming an okra co-op, voting, electing representatives to the farming committee, and so forth. Thus, I have used images (found, created, mangled, copied, and transformed) to try to radically re-envision and illustrate the possibilities for civic discourse that stemmed from these marginalized rhetorical practices.