National Healing: Race, State, and the Teaching of Composition

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments   xi New Orleans: A Prayer   xiii I Cage : The Provincial Co mposition Learning New Ways #1   3 Making a Past a Past and a Life a Life   6 1975   12 The Most Important Class   16 1980   20 Speaking of Love   24 “It Had Better Be Worth It”   27 The Use and Abuse of History   29 A New Beginning   33 The Babel Effect   36 A Question of Service   43 More Than One   48 International Composition #1   51 No New Colonialism, Then   54 Transcending Transnationalism?   56 International Composition #2   71 And to Go Beyond the Words   74 The Styles   80 Rhetorical Boundaries and Agency   84 Part of the Story   86 Rhetorical Traditions: A Statement about Methodology   93 For Instance, a Mindful Rhetoric   98 Voices from the Dark; Voices from the Light   101 Museum Pieces   107 Oh, Multicultural America   110 A Recent History, a Decent Future   113 What Will the Yard Sales Say?   116 II Circ ulations : The C omposing of C o mposition Why Ezra?   119 Nationalism   129 Is It Patriotism or Is It Nationalism?   133 Critical Literacy   136 A Decent Nation   143 A Nation’s Cultural Centrism   147 When You Do the Research   155 The Global Nothing   164 And So?   172 In Other Words, It Carries Over   178 III Key: The Com position Class roo m Exhibit A   181 What Are You Burning to Tell the World?   182 The Class Workshop   185 Books   188 Why a Book?   193 Forewords   196 Ubuntu: Rhetorical Principles at Work   198 Mindful Teaching   202 When We Compose   206 National Recalcitrance   208 There Is No Rhetoric, but There Is Hope   211 The International Sustainable Literacy Project   215 IV Uncage d : The I nte rnational Futur e o f Co mposition Mistakes and Beyond   221 International Composition #3   223 On the Road with International Composition   226 World Englishes; World Compositions   230 Securing Composition; Saving the Planet   234 Learning New Ways #2   238 Coda   239 References   255 Index   277 ...