"But a quilt is more": Recontextualizing the Discourse(s) of the Gee's Bend Quilts

College English

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 294-316

  Sohan, Vanessa Kraemer ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural studies; Storytelling; Visual literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924261590     PISSN: 00100994     EISSN: 21618178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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