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Acrostic Resistance: Reading the Rhetoric of Irony in the Recent Resignation Letters

01 Friday Sep 2017

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Acrostic, Daniel Kammen, Donald Trump, Irony, Linda Hutcheon, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Resist

Various high-profile resignations in Donald Trump’s staff have tendered resignation letters with coded messages hidden through acrostics. What is the point of such a gesture? This is a literary analysis of the resignation letters of the PCAH and science envoy Daniel Kammen to examine the politics of their resistance to Trump.

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