In this Book
- National Healing: Race, State, and the Teaching of Composition
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Utah State University Press
In National Healing, author Claude Hurlbert persuasively relates nationalism to institutional racism and contends that these are both symptoms of a national ill health afflicting American higher education and found even in the field of writing studies. Teachers and scholars, even in progressive fields like composition, are unwittingly at odds with their own most liberatory purposes, he says, and he advocates consciously broadening our understanding of rhetoric and writing instruction to include rhetorical traditions of non-Western cultures.
Threading a personal narrative of his own experiences as a student, professor, and citizen through a wide ranging discussion of theory, pedagogy, and philosophy in the writing classroom, Hurlbert weaves a vision that moves beyond simple polemic and simplistic multiculturalism. National Healing offers a compelling new aesthetic, epistemological, and rhetorical configuration.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- New Orleans: A Prayer
- p. xiii
- I. Cage : The Provincial Composition
- Learning New Ways #1
- pp. 3-5
- The Most Important Class
- pp. 16-19
- Speaking of Love
- pp. 24-26
- “It Had Better Be Worth It”
- pp. 27-28
- The Use and Abuse of History
- pp. 29-32
- A New Beginning
- pp. 33-35
- The Babel Effect
- pp. 36-42
- A Question of Service
- pp. 43-47
- More Than One
- pp. 48-50
- International Composition #1
- pp. 51-53
- No New Colonialism, Then
- pp. 54-55
- Transcending Transnationalism?
- pp. 56-70
- International Composition #2
- pp. 71-73
- And to Go Beyond the Words
- pp. 74-79
- The Styles
- pp. 80-83
- Rhetorical Boundaries and Agency
- pp. 84-85
- Part of the Story
- pp. 86-92
- For Instance, a Mindful Rhetoric
- pp. 98-100
- Voices from the Dark; Voices from the Light
- pp. 101-106
- Museum Pieces
- pp. 107-109
- Oh, Multicultural America
- pp. 110-112
- A Recent History, a Decent Future
- pp. 113-115
- II. Circulations : The Composing of Composition
- Nationalism
- pp. 129-132
- Is It Patriotism or Is It Nationalism?
- pp. 133-135
- Critical Literacy
- pp. 136-142
- A Decent Nation
- pp. 143-146
- A Nation’s Cultural Centrism
- pp. 147-154
- When You Do the Research
- pp. 155-163
- The Global Nothing
- pp. 164-171
- III. Key: The Composition Classroom
- What Are You Burning to Tell the World?
- pp. 182-184
- The Class Workshop
- pp. 185-187
- Why a Book?
- pp. 193-195
- Ubuntu: Rhetorical Principles at Work
- pp. 198-201
- Mindful Teaching
- pp. 202-205
- When We Compose
- pp. 206-207
- National Recalcitrance
- pp. 208-210
- There Is No Rhetoric, but There Is Hope
- pp. 211-214
- IV. Uncaged: The International Future of Composition
- Mistakes and Beyond
- pp. 221-222
- International Composition #3
- pp. 223-225
- On the Road with International Composition
- pp. 226-229
- World Englishes; World Compositions
- pp. 230-233
- Securing Composition; Saving the Planet
- pp. 234-237
- Learning New Ways #2
- p. 238
- References
- pp. 255-275
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2013