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THE PITTSBURGH SERIES INCOMPOSITION, LITERACY, AND CULTURE

David Bartholomae and Jean Ferguson Carr, Editors

The Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture publishesin composition and rhetoric, literacy, and culture; in the history ofwriting, reading, and instructional practice; the construction ofAmerican literacy and letters; and the relations between languageand gender, ethnicity, race, or class.

The series seeks work informed by interested disciplines, such asliterary theory, history, linguistics, psychology, anthropology,sociology, education, and philosophy, with the purpose of provokingreflection about disciplinary practices. The series will also reprinteditions of valuable historical materials, to locate within historicalcontexts the cultural practices of reading, writing, and teaching.

The goal of the series is to bring together on one list scholarship thatcrosses traditional boundaries. The editors welcome investigationsthat step outside the usual forms and outlines of academic inquiry.

We invite original works of scholarship for consideration to be pub-lished in this series. Information about how to submit a manuscriptcan be found at the back of this brochure.

Sincerely,Josh Shanholtzer, Series Editor,[email protected]

CONTENTS

New Titles ………………………………………………………………3–7

Recently Published …………………………………………………8–12

Selected Backlist …………………………………………………13–27

Author Index ……………………………………………………………30

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Producing Good Citizens Literacy Training in Anxious Times

AMY J. WAN

“A fitting reminder of the ways higher educationhas served as a training ground for particular kindsof literacy and citizenship. Using archival researchfrom various literacy training sites, Wan shows thathistorically, literacy has served as a tool to shapecitizenship in response to societal shifts, and bytreating the actualization of citizenship as theresponsibility of the individual, literacy trainingrisks reinforcing rather than mitigating existinglegal, economic, and cultural exclusions.”—Bruce Horner, University of Louisville

“A first-rate work. The topic is timely and Amy J.Wan makes a genuine contribution to compositionand writing studies by complicating ideas of citi-zenship that are floating around the field (the‘ambient awareness’ that she notes). Wan has a bigand important set of questions that motivates thespecificity of her empirical studies.”—John Trimbur, Emerson College

Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed

great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. The stipulation of literacy has

long been one of these criteria. In Producing Good Citizens,Amy J. Wan examines the

historic roots of this phenomenon, looking specifically to the period just before World War I,

up until the Great Depression. During this time, the United States witnessed a similar anxiety

over the influx of immigrants, economic uncertainty, and global political tensions.

Early on, educators bore the brunt of literacy training, while also being charged with

producing the right kind of citizens by imparting civic responsibility and a moral code for

the workplace and society. Literacy quickly became the credential to gain legal, econom-

ic, and cultural status. In her study, Wan defines three distinct pedagogical spaces for lit-

eracy training during the 1910s and 1920s: Americanization and citizenship programs

sponsored by the federal government, union-sponsored programs, and first year univer-

sity writing programs. Wan also demonstrates how each literacy program had its own

motivation: the federal government desired productive citizens, unions needed educated

members to fight for labor reform, and university educators looked to aid social mobility.

Citing numerous literacy theorists, Wan analyzes the correlation of reading and writing

skills to larger currents within American society. She shows how early literacy training

coincided with the demand for laborers during the rise of mass manufacturing, while also

providing an avenue to economic opportunity for immigrants. This fostered a rhetorical

link between citizenship, productivity, and patriotism. Wan supplements her analysis with

an examination of citizen training books, labor newspapers, factory manuals, policy doc-

uments, public deliberations on citizenship and literacy, and other materials from the peri-

od to reveal the goal and rationale behind each program.

Wan relates the enduring bond of literacy and citizenship to current times, by demon-

strating the use of literacy to mitigate economic inequality, and its lasting value to a pro-

ductivity-based society. Today, as in the past, educators continue to serve as an integral

part of the literacy training and citizen-making process.

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Rhetoric in AmericanAnthropologyRisA ApplegARth

“Risa Applegarth’s Rhetoric in American Anthropologydraws our attention to the work—both past andpresent—of defining what counts as anthropologi-cal fieldwork, as well as who is allowed to do thiswork. Using a novel approach to rhetorical arche-ology, she explains how different concepts of ‘thefield’ and forms of writing arose historically, andmost importantly, how women and scholars ofcolor have been both marginalized and influentialin these developments.”—Rogers P. Hall, Vanderbilt University

“Applegarth’s provocative account of genre forma-tion challenges our understanding of genre, profes-sionalization and scientific discipline formation.Scholars of anthropology, scientific rhetoric, andgender and race studies will value Applegarth’srecovery of three powerful early genres and thewriters who produced them.”—Brent Henze, East Carolina University

In the early twentieth century, the field of anthropology transformed itself from the “wel-

coming science,” uniquely open to women, people of color, and amateurs, into a pro-

fessional science of culture. The new field grew in rigor and prestige but excluded prac-

titioners and methods that no longer fit a narrow standard of scientific legitimacy. In

Rhetoric in American Anthropology, Risa Applegarth traces the “rhetorical archeology” of

this transformation in the writings of early women anthropologists. Applegarth examines

the crucial role of ethnographic genres in determining scientific status and recovers the

work of marginalized anthropologists who developed alternative forms of scientific writing.

Applegarth analyzes scores of ethnographic monographs to demonstrate how early

anthropologists intensified the constraints of genre to define their community and limit the

aims and methods of their science. But in the 1920s and 1930s, professional researchers

sidelined by the academy persisted in challenging the field’s boundaries, developing

unique rhetorical practices and experimenting with alternative genres that in turn greatly

expanded the epistemology of the field. Applegarth demonstrates how these writers’ folk-

lore collections, ethnographic novels, and autobiographies of fieldwork experiences

reopened debates over how scientific knowledge was made: through what human relation-

ships, by what bodies, and for what ends. Linking early anthropologists’ ethnographic

strategies to contemporary theories of rhetoric and composition, Rhetoric in American

Anthropology provides a fascinating account of the emergence of a new discipline and

reveals powerful intersections among gender, genre, and science.




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Renovating Rhetoric inChristian Traditionedited by elizAbeth VANdeR lei,

thoMAs AMoRose, beth dANiell,

and ANNe Ruggles geRe

“This volume offers a powerful and much-neededreminder to scholars in our field—as instructorsand citizens—that religiously informed and moti-vated rhetors can and should be understood in thefull complexity of their accomplishments.”—Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross

“While rhetoric and religion have always had a lotto offer each other, scholars in both fields haveonly recently begun to say what that involves. Thiscollection of new and established voices marks awelcome advance in showing how this excitingchallenge can be met in our own time.”—Walter Jost, University of Virginia

T hroughout history, determined individuals have appropriated and reconstructed

rhetorical and religious resources to create effective arguments. In the process, they

have remade both themselves and their communities. This edited volume offers

notable examples of these reconstructions, ranging from the formation of Christianity to

questions about the relationship of religious and academic ways of knowing.

The initial chapters explore historic challenges to Christian doctrines and gender roles.

Contributors examine Mormon women’s campaigns for the recognition of their sect,

women’s suffrage, and the statehood of Utah; the Seventh-day Adventist challenge to the

mainstream designation of Sunday as the Sabbath; a female minister who confronted the

gendered tenets of early Methodism and created her own sacred spaces; women who,

across three centuries, fashioned an apostolic voice of humble authority rooted in spiritual

conversion; and members of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist

Episcopal Church, who redefined notions of women’s intellectual capacity and appropriate

fields for work from the Civil War through World War II.

Considering contemporary learning environments, other contributors explore resources that

can help faculty and students of composition and rhetoric consider more fully the relations of

religion and academic work. These contributors call upon the work of theologians, philoso-

phers, and biblical scholars to propose strategies for building trust through communication.

The final chapters examine the writings of Apostle Paul and his use of Jewish forms of

argumentation and provide an overarching discussion of how the Christian tradition has resis-

ted rhetorical renovation, and in the process, missed opportunities to renovate spiritual belief.



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Plateau Indian Ways with WordsThe Rhetorical Tradition of the Tribes of theInland Pacific Northwest

bARbARA MoNRoe

“What’s new is this book’s focus on a specificAmerican Indian culture and that culture’s rhetori-cal tradition. Monroe makes an effective bridgebetween the work of scholars in American Indianstudies and scholarship in composition and com-munication studies. In a general sense, the value ofPlateau Indian Ways with Words is its overarchingmovement toward rhetorical and communicativeinclusivity. More specifically, Monroe provides atemplate for educators who serve American Indiancommunities on how to identify culturally specificrhetorical patterns.”— Ernest Stromberg, California State University,

Monterey Bay

In Plateau Indian Ways with Words, Barbara Monroe makes visible the arts of persuasion

of the Plateau Indians, whose ancestral grounds stretch from the Cascades to the

Rockies, revealing a chain of cultural identification that predates the colonial period and

continues to this day. Culling from hundreds of student writings from grades 7-12 in two

reservation schools, Monroe finds that students employ the same persuasive techniques as

their forebears, as evidenced in dozens of post-conquest speech transcriptions and histori-

cal writings. These persuasive strategies have survived not just across generations, but also

across languages from Indian to English and across multiple genres from telegrams and

Supreme Court briefs to school essays and hip hop lyrics.

Anecdotal evidence, often dramatically recreated; sarcasm and humor; suspended or

unstated thesis; suspenseful arrangement; intimacy with and respect for one’s audience as

co-authors of meaning—these are among the privileged markers in this particular indigenous

rhetorical tradition. Such strategies of personalization, as Monroe terms them, run exactly

counter to Euro-American academic standards that value secondary, distant sources;

“objective” evidence; explicit theses; “logical” arrangement. Not surprisingly, scores for

Native students on mandated tests are among the lowest in the nation.

While Monroe questions the construction of this so-called achievement gap on multiple

levels, she argues that educators serving Native students need to seek out points of cultur-

al congruence, selecting assignments and assessments where culturally marked norms con-

verge, rather than collide. New media have opened up many possibilities for this kind of com-

municative inclusivity. But seizing such opportunities is predicated on educators, first, recog-

nizing Plateau Indian students’ distinctive rhetoric, and then honoring their sovereign right to

use it. This book provides that first step.



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Tropic TendenciesRhetoric, Popular Culture, and theAnglophone Caribbean

KeViN AdoNis bRoWNe

“Browne’s Tropic Tendencies is a groundbreakingstudy, and a necessary one. He provides a nuancedand distinct analysis of Caribbeans and their rheto-ric with his careful exploration of the origins andcontemporary meanings of the strategies and formsused to activate and display the complexities ofCaribbean consciousness. Browne’s thought-provok-ing theory of the Caribbean carnivalesque—itself aprime example of the rhetorical creolization presentin the many performances he observes—blends clas-sical and contemporary vernacular traditions toarticulate an ethos that is distinctly Caribbean.”—Elaine Richardson, The Ohio State University

“Browne’s excellent contribution to cultural studiesin the anglophone Caribbean is grounded in arhetorical praxis that ranges over several expressiveforms, including poetry, masquerade, music, folk-lore, fiction, and digital media. The compellinganalysis is impressive both in coverage and insight.”— Glyne A. Griffith, University at Albany,

State University of New York

A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted

the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne

examines the development of an anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in

response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain identity, negotiate across differences,

and thrive in light of historical constraints and the need to participate in contemporary glob-

al culture.

Browne bases his study on the concept of the Caribbean carnivalesque as the formative

ethos driving cultural and rhetorical production in the region and beyond it. He finds that car-

nivalesque discourse operates as a “continuum of discursive substantiation” that increases

the probability of achieving desired outcomes for both the rhetor and the audience. Browne

also views the symbolic and material interplay of the masque and its widespread use to

amplify efforts of resistance, assertion, and liberation.

Browne analyzes rhetorical modes and strategies in a variety of forms. He introduces

chantwells, calypsonians, old talkers, jamettes, stickfighters, badjohns, and others as exem-

plary purveyors of Caribbean rhetoric and deconstructs their rhetorical displays. From nov-

els by Earl Lovelace, he also extracts thematic references to kalinda, limbo, and dragon

dances that demonstrate the author’s claim of an active vernacular sensibility. He then inves-

tigates the re-creation and reinvention of the carnivalesque in cyber culture, demonstrating

the ways participants both flaunt and defy normative ideas of “Caribbeanness” online and in

macroenvironments.




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Ambient Rhetoric The Attunements of Rhetorical Being

thoMAs RicKeRt

Winner of the 2014 cccc outstanding book Award

“Rickert brings together four fields of thought—contemporarycognitive science, phenomenology, 20th-century ambientmusic, and theories of materiality—to further the theoreticalscope of rhetoric. . . . Despite the rigor and density of the work,it is readable and accessible; indeed, it is at times playful withreferences to the lyrics of popular songs often supplementingreferences to poets, theorists, and philosophers. . . . An impor-tant piece of conceptual inquiry that could prove foundationalfor the field in years to come. Highly recommended.”—Choice

“Ambient Rhetoric will immediately find an audience of rhetor-ical scholars who will want to grapple with its many provoca-tive directions. Not only is it a well-conceived and well-execut-ed book, but it is an important one.”—John Muckelbauer, University of South Carolina

“Thematically, Ambient Rhetoric is at the cutting edge of rhetor-ical theory in the U.S. context. . . . What would it mean for rhet-oric to reside outside the control of human agency? Thestrength of Rickert’s book is the rich response to this question.”

—Daniel M. Gross, University of California, Irvine

Multimodal Literacies andEmerging Genresedited by tRAceY boWeN and cARl WhithAus

“Bowen and Whithaus’s Multimodal Literacies and EmergingGenres assembles an impressive range of experiences and theo-retical frameworks. This volume is sure to be of great use towriting teachers interested in expanding their thinking aboutand teaching with computers.”—Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Clarkson University

“This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in multi-modal composition (and that should include all of us). Eachchapter weaves together theory, perspectives from multiplestakeholders, and practical examples for classrooms and pro-grams. Together, the chapters model how to consider thought-fully the impact of intertwined modes, media, and genres.”— Karen Lunsford, University of California, Santa Barbara




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Experimental Writing in Composition Aesthetics and Pedagogies

pAtRiciA suzANNe sulliVAN

“In providing readers with both the history of experimentalwriting and aesthetic theories that help explain how to evalu-ate these genres, Sullivan gives composition instructors a bet-ter sense of what is possible and at the same time tracks com-position’s changes over the last 50 years.”—The CEA Forum

“Sullivan creates a new framework for current discussionsabout multimedia writing by examining composition studieswithin the context of experimental writing. In doing so,Sullivan presents an innovative way of understanding the histo-ry of new trends in the field. This book not only revises what wethink we know about our theories and practices, it offers us newmethods for reading our pasts and composing our futures.”—Nancy C. DeJoy, Michigan State University

Distant Publics Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis

JeNNY Rice

“One of rhetoric’s foremost theorists presents a riveting pictureof development, weaving together history, theory, and observa-tional analysis into a case for rhetoric’s centrality to urban devel-opment and development’s importance for rhetorical theory.This book should be read and taught far and wide; its methodand theory are very much grounded in ground: material things,concrete issues (and issues of concrete). Its contributions tomaterial rhetoric and to theories of subjectivity, publics, and cit-izenship are as important as they will be lasting.”—Debra Hawhee, Pennsylvania State University

“To say that Distant Publics is about the rhetoric of developmentis really an oversimplification. This book is a deep exploration ofhow rhetoric, ecology, sustainability, spatial theory, citizenry, andsubjectivity converge. It is unique and powerful, asking us torethink not just urban spaces and rhetorics but the very ways inwhich we conceptualize rhetoric. Distant Publics asks readers toengage what amount to the most pressing issues of writing stud-ies and rhetoric in fresh, smart ways. Jenny Rice speaks directlyto and within rhetoric and composition, but she asks us to seebeyond disciplinary limits in provocative ways that demand wenot settle for the safety and comfort of familiar conversations.”—Sid Dobrin, University of Florida


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Illness as Narrative ANN JuRecic

“Jurecic is a mindful reader and she successfully provides asuccinctly written arc of the emergence of illness narratives inthe twentieth century. . . . A must read for all literature andmedicine courses and certainly will be added to medicalhumanities programs around the country.”—All Heart Matters

“Ann Jurecic opens a door. The light that spills through thatnewly opened door illuminates not just illness and/as narrativebut why we read, why we write, and what stories are for.Jurecic nails what is at stake here—truth, intersubjectivity,relation, mortality, and freedom. What a voice. What a vision.What a challenge this book is to literary criticism, to medicalpractice, to all of us who bleed and yet live.”—Rita Charon, Columbia University

“There is no greater term of scholarly disparagement than‘therapeutic.’ Jurecic’s eloquent defense of therapeutic litera-ture is as necessary and humane as the misunderstood illnessnarrative itself. Promoting mindful listening and sympatheticunderstanding, this gutsy and levelheaded book performs itsown reparative work, restoring care and concern, recognitionand response, attention and acknowledgement, healing andhope to our critical lexicon.”—Diana Fuss, Princeton University

Networking Arguments Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing

RebeccA diNgo

“Represents the most recent interventions feminist rhetoricianscan make in the discourses that shape women’s imagined andlived conditions. Dingo’s methodology holds the potential toexpand the inquiries of feminist rhetoric by encouraging femi-nist rhetoricians to engage with rhetorics as they circulatetransnationally, shaping women’s lives in the process.”—Rhetoric Society Quarterly

“Forcefully arguing that rhetorical networks have materialeffects on women’s lives, Dingo’s Networking Arguments inter-venes in timely critical debates and develops new methods fortransnational feminist rhetorical scholarship. Dingo’s persistentcritique of the liberal (and neoliberal) individual subject allowsher to theorize the ways that social being and structures ofpower condition rhetorical expression. This critique opens thedoor for profound challenges to the notions of an autonomousrhetorical subject and a stable (spatially and temporally)rhetorical situation.”—Bret Benjamin, University at Albany, SUNY





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To Know Her Own History Writing at the Woman’s College, 1943–1963

KellY RitteR

“[An] engaging and timely volume . . . meticulously researched. . . Ritter is a scholar of the first rank.”—Rhetoric Review

“To Know Her Own History gives new texture to compositionand rhetoric’s history in documenting the processes of curric-ular reform in a state-supported normal school for womenpost–World War II. This history enriches our understandingof women’s rhetorical education within a rich multigenrewriting curriculum and shows the effects of feminization ofwriting program administration as the women’s normalschool model was abandoned in the unique political andsocial context of the South.”—Joy S. Ritchie, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“In this scholarly narrative, Ritter focuses on literacy educationin a first-rate Southern women’s college and on the personaland professional achievements of many of the graduates. Shealso recognizes, however, the sociohistorical context in whichthese women were educated, a context that includes conditionsof gendered and raced labor as well as ongoing tensionsbetween the creative writing and composition programs.”—Cheryl Glenn, Pennsylvania State University

Literate Zeal Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos

JANet cAReY eldRed

“A beautifully crafted homage to those editors and to theAmerican literary aesthetic they created. . . . an ‘insider view’ thatenriches our understanding of women editors in creating anAmerican literature that otherwise wouldn’t have existed. . . .Eldred opens up fascinating new territory for understanding theinner workings of a magazine that was widely regarded as awoman’s magazine at this time.” —American Journalism

“The author ingeniously weaves together discussion of the mag-azines and their respective editors. This sharply written booksheds significant light on how gender informed author-editor-reader relations in 20th century magazine publishing. Highly rec-ommended.”—Choice

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The Megarhetorics of Global Development edited by RebeccA diNgo and J. blAKe scott

“A progressive and substantial contribution to scholarship inrhetorical studies, this book is an analysis of the discourse ofglobal development—‘development’ in the broadest sense ofthe term: economic and technological as well as cultural andgeopolitical. The chapters examine the effects and materialconsequences of the megarhetorics of development as well asthe discourse that rhetors and others employ to structure argu-ments for (and sometimes against) development projects. Istrongly recommend this collection to students and scholars ofrhetoric. It is likely to open up whole new paths of investiga-tion for future scholars.”—Gary A. Olson, Idaho State University

“This volume comes on the scene with a sense of urgency.Through hard-hitting, lucid, yet carefully textured analyses,the authors of these impressive chapters explore rhetoric andeconomy in development policy, the advertising of multina-tionals, NGO appeals, documentary filmmaking, and manymore sites. Readers will find here provocative critique as wellas openings for resistance and creative possibility in the worldof transnational capitalism.”—Susan C. Jarratt, University of California, Irvine

Beyond the Pulpit Women’s Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press

lisA J. shAVeR

“Shaver not only makes critical interventions by moving femi-nist rhetorical studies ‘beyond the pulpit’ to excavate andexplore the little narratives that indicate women’s significancein Methodist communities, but she also offers an exemplarymethodological model that guides scholars toward answeringthe question: How do we write histories that interrogate ques-tions of rhetoric, religion, and gender?”—Rhetoric Society Quarterly

“In Beyond the Pulpit, Shaver has made visible women who havelong remained nameless and rhetorical activities that have longbeen ignored. And she has shown that, like the church itself,Methodist publications became ‘liminal zones’ or ‘borderlands’for the rhetorical development of Methodist women.”—American Periodicals




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From Form to MeaningFreshman Composition and the Long Sixties, 1957–1974

dAVid FleMiNg

Winner of the 2012 cccc outstanding book Award and the

2011 MlA Mina p. shaughnessy prize

“Offers a rich, detailed historical study, a compelling narrativethat will fascinate anyone—students and teachers alike—con-nected to or interested in the teaching of writing and rhetoric inhigher education. Highly recommended.”—Choice

“Through a detailed history of the collapse of the University ofWisconsin-Madison writing program in the late 1960s, Flemingprovides a fascinating and vital portrait of a field on the cusp oflegitimacy as well as an important reminder to all of us that his-tory and careers are often made (and lost) in the departmentalhallways that mark our everyday life.”—Stephen Parks, Syracuse University

Interests and Opportunities Race, Racism, and University Writing Instruction in thePost–Civil Rights Era

steVe lAMos

“Lamos reminds us that composition classrooms and writing pro-grams have functioned increasingly as sites where competing val-ues and interests have converged and diverged dynamically acrossthe decades. He casts a critical eye toward what has constitutedwriting instruction and succeeds in making a compelling case forrethinking the stories we tell as we go forward, recognizing thatthese converging and diverging challenges continue.”—Jacqueline J. Royster, Georgia Institute of Technology

“Lamos provides a fine-grained analysis of the politics of race inhigher education and challenges us to consider the ways in whichracialized discourses both stymie, and occasionally enable, insti-tutional change.”—Jennifer Trainor, San Francisco State University

Toward a Composition Made WholeJodY shipKA

“Shipka addresses a profound need in composition studies, espe-cially as we talk about (and talk around) multimodality, compo-sition, new media, and more: to better contextualize how, when,where, and why composing happens in a way that can capturesome of the vast complexities and nuances that emerge acrosscomposing tasks.”—Danielle Nicole DeVoss, Michigan State University

“Shipka urges us to consider the full range of representationalexpressions, from plays to ephemera to (memorably) ballet slip-pers. She considers the environments, moments, and physicaldemands of composition, a process carried out against the back-drop of complex lives. And she provides us the tools to apply theselessons in our own classrooms. Timely and thought-provoking.”—Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas at Austin




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The Evolution of College English Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns

thoMAs p. MilleR

“This is the most comprehensive history of English studies in theUnited States ever written. Fortunately, it is also the best. It willnot only set the standard for histories of the field but also, in manyways, the agenda for the field into the post-postmodern era.”—David Russell, Iowa State University

“Miller’s history of English studies successfully accounts for transhistorical literate practices in and around the field. His workremembers that English is a vernacular that emerged from religious,political, economic, multiple-gendered, and specifically schooledmoments to become ‘English’ as a profession. Miller simultaneous-ly expands the range and corrects the biases of previous histories ofour profession in an instantaneously sensible paradigm we need atanother crucial moment, one redefining its legitimacy.”—Susan J. Miller, University of Utah

Inessential Solidarity Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations

diANe dAVis

Winner of the 2010 JAc W. Ross Winterowd Award

“An outstanding piece of scholarship, a fine read, and controver-sial, too. A must read for those who have an interest in the philos-ophy of rhetoric and how such a philosophy is essential for main-taining the well-being of humankind.”—Rhetoric and Public Affairs

“I have come to view Diane Davis as one of today’s most insight-ful and provocative thinkers about rhetoric. Inessential Solidarityconfirms me in that opinion as she incisively asks the most basicquestions about rhetoric’s nature and function and challenges ourmost cherished assumptions about what rhetorical studies shouldbe. This book is not just an important theoretical contribution torhetorical studies; it is also a profound rhetorical contribution tocritical theory at the forefront of contemporary thinking.”—Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University

Re-reading PoetsThe Life of the Author

pAul KAMeeN

“Kameen’s argument is an ambitious mining of personal, practical,philosophical, theoretical, and pedagogical aspects of a compas-sionate teacher/scholar/poet’s life. Highly recommended.”—Choice

“Kameen’s provocative analysis should revitalize literary criticismfor years to come—both by proposing a new way of readingpoems and by returning critical attention to ‘the author,’ a figurewho has been systematically erased by literary theories rangingfrom New Criticism to poststructuralism. Smart, succinct,thought-provoking, and entertaining, this book will appeal toscholarly and non-scholarly readers alike.”—Timothy Mayers, Millersville University








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Wit’s EndWomen’s Humor as Rhetorical and Performative Strategy

seAN zWAgeRMAN

“Steers a careful path between a sober recognition of the con-straints on women’s rhetoric, on the one hand, and the possibili-ties for meaningful communication and action, on the other. Itcontributes to knowledge by expanding existing perspectives onthe rhetorical (and therefore often ‘serious’) uses of humor.”—Enculturation

“Shrewdly deploying speech-act theory, Wit’s End illuminates howgender and humor function in a wide array of texts. Zwagerman’sown witty and stylish prose is entertaining as well as insightful.He has produced that rare thing: the immensely pleasurablescholarly book.”—John Schilb, Indiana University

Rhetorica in MotionFeminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies

edited by eileeN e. schell and K. J. RAWsoN

“An insightful framework for thinking reflectively and reflexive-ly about theories, practices, and pedagogies that have been wellinformed by various intersections of feminisms and rhetorics as arelatively new field of inquiry. Kudos to Schell and Rawson forpushing forward three decades of scholarship and teaching in ourfield with clarity and critical insight.”—Jacqueline Jones Royster, Georgia Institute of Technology

“The time is right to rethink the role of feminism in rhetoric andcomposition. Committed but not dogmatic, these thoughtfulscholars move beyond exhausted categories without losing thevaluable insights of the past decades. Rhetorica in Motion willbecome indispensable for a new generation of feminist scholars inour field.”—Susan C. Jarratt, University of California, Irvine

The Rhetoric of Remediation Negotiating Entitlement and Access to Higher Education

JANe stANleY

Winner of the 2010 MlA Mina p. shaughnessy prize

“This lively book, through a focus on remedial English at UCBerkeley, addresses a wide range of important and timely topics:educational standards, the politics of remediation, the way abilitygets defined in institutions. Stanley’s book is a must-read.”— Mike Rose, author of Why School? Reclaiming Education

for All of Us

“This beautifully written book offers the first fully historicalstudy of remedial composition in higher education. Stanley’sacute analysis of this paradoxical rhetoric—of how universitieslament the presence of remedial students whose enrollments theyneed—surely applies to other institutions of higher learning.”—Mary Soliday, author of The Politics of Remediation




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Learning from LanguageSymmetry, Asymmetry, and Literary Humanism

WAlteR h. beAle

“What we really have here is a love story. Beale loves languageand its possibilities, and throughout this meticulously craftedanalysis he conveys the rhetorician’s passion for language andfor the ways that it can both convey and originate thought.Highly recommended.”—Choice

“Sharp and interesting. Makes a convincing case for an under-standing of language as displaying elements of both symmetryand asymmetry, existing in a state of constant dialectical adjust-ment.”—Rain Taxi

Buying into EnglishLanguage and Investment in the New Capitalist World

cAtheRiNe pReNdeRgAst

“Full of stories, large and small, about the cheapening of Englishin a country where people had once fetishized it, going to greatlengths to learn it for themselves and their children under aregime that placed as many obstacles as possible in their path.”—The Nation

“In this unique blend of personal reminiscence and social analy-sis, Prendergast examines the relationships among languagelearning, political power, capital investment, and individualadvancement. Should be required reading for anyone concernedwith English as a global language and with the ways of writingabout our own encounters with a changing world.”—Seth Lerer, Stanford University

A Counter-History of CompositionToward Methodologies of Complexity

bYRoN hAWK

Winner of the 2007 JAc W. Ross Winterowd Award

“In this original and important contribution to compositionscholarship, Byron Hawk sets out to correct a crucial misunder-standing that has plagued theory and historiography for threedecades: a mischaracterization of vitalism. By providing anuanced analysis of this crucial concept, Hawk effectivelyrewrites our intellectual history. A must read!”—Gary A. Olson, Illinois State University

“Hawk’s remapping of the field’s histories is complicated andambitious. He takes a romp through histories of invention, vital-ism, method, and dialectic from Aristotle forward, providing,among other things, a much-needed counter-history to JamesBerlin and a rich reading of Coleridge’s method that breathes lifeinto complex vitalisms that the field has worked at erasing.”—Sherrie Gradin, Ohio University








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Acts of EnjoymentRhetoric, Žižek, and the Return of the Subject

thoMAs RicKeRt

Winner of the 2007 JAc gary A. olson Award

“A provocative book whose major contribution is, unquestion-ably, the lucid distillation of key psychoanalytic concepts.”—JAC

“Rickert offers a belated dialogue between Žižek and compositionstudies, one that productively theorizes an ethics of writing with-out nostalgically bemoaning the loss of the unitary subject.”—South Atlantic Review

Local HistoriesReading the Archives of Composition

edited by pAtRiciA doNAhue and gRetcheN FlesheR MooN

“A stunning achievement—and long overdue. This book doesmore to dislodge that narrative form from our disciplinary self-consciousness than any other project of its kind.”—Rhetoric Review

“Represents the best that we know about constructing our histo-ries and refiguring our archive. I heartily applaud the writers andeditors, and their work.”—Writing on the Edge

Who Says?Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community

edited by WilliAM degeNARo

“Impressive. The diversity of research approaches to social classitself is exemplary. A welcome collection, one a long time coming.”—JAC

“Who Says? will go a long way toward raising awareness of thestrategic use of language by working-class people: to create com-munity, to construct gender roles, to create oppositional identitiesto the managerial class, to collectively speak out against oppres-sive working conditions, to speak the value of hard work, and toreflect and reinforce a host of cultural traditions.”— Jennifer Beech, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga








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Toward a Civil DiscourseRhetoric and Fundamentalism

shARoN cRoWleY

Winner of the 2008 Rhetoric society of America book Award,

the 2008 cccc outstanding book Award, the 2007 Ncte david h.

Russell Award, and the 2006 JAc gary A. olson Award

“A remarkable examination of affective citizenship’s expansionsand contractions. An excellent study of the fundamentalist rhet-oric that is gaining such powerful influence in American culture,[reaffirms] the power of rhetoric within the civic sphere.”— JAC

“Crowley creatively rethinks the tools of ancient rhetorical inven-tion in light of postmodern academic theory. With historical pre-cision and theoretical perspicacity, she then incisively analyzes thecurrent impasse in public deliberations between adherents ofmodern liberalism and Christian apocalyptism. A major new state-ment by one of the most important rhetoricians writing today.”—Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine

American Indian Rhetorics of SurvivanceWord Medicine, Word Magic

edited by eRNest stRoMbeRg

“A good collection for those interested in the relationship ofindigenous rhetoric in North America and Western rhetoric.”—Rhetoric Review

”Excellent material upon which other scholars of Native rhetoriccan build.”—JAC

(Re)Writing CraftComposition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies

tiM MAYeRs

“A penetrating critique of English studies in the academy . . . pro-vides an excellent history and overview of the current state ofEnglish studies. Written in a down-to-earth style with plenty ofexamples, this book will be accessible and interesting for readersat all levels.”—Choice

“The publication of this book signals a turn in English studiesthat reflects the recent emergence of writing programs as disci-plines in many English departments across the country. So accu-rate is (Mayers’) assessment that he could be talking about mydepartment, or yours.”—Patrick Bizzaro, East Carolina University








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Writing at the End of the WorldRichARd e. MilleR

co-Winner of the 2006 cee James h. britton Award

“Rich, provocative, and multigenric. The most consistentstrength in Writing at the End of the World is Miller’s ability tolocate existing binaries and blend competing arguments to pro-duce strikingly original insights.”—JAC

“Only a book as eloquently composed and carefully reasoned asthis one could provide the critical optimism missing from theHumanities today. Miller’s intelligent and moving study gives mehope that writing does matter after all, even and especially in theface of our greatest national traumas. This book is humanisticwriting at its very best.”—Diana Fuss, Princeton University

The Language of ExperienceLiterate Practices and Social Change

gWeN goRzelsKY

“A delightfully unusual book. It is also distinctive in the wideexpanse of experiential and historical ground it covers in itstreatment of change—so much so, that it’s nearly impossible todescribe the work in such a way as to give an adequate sense ofits scope and possible uses. Compelling.” —JAC

“One of the few extended treatments of literacy and social changeavailable anywhere. From past to present, Gorzelsky connects theelusive dots among social movements, literacy, and personalchange—and does so through an original and courageous mix ofpsychology, history, ethnography, and self-revelation.”—Deborah Brandt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Managing Literacy, Mothering AmericaWomen’s Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century

sARAh RobbiNs

Winner, 2006 outstanding Academic title Award from Choice Magazine

“This fascinating account of ‘domestic literary narrative’ treatstexts that show how middle-class maternal teaching through‘print-text’ (i.e., mothers’ instruction in reading, writing, andinterpreting written works) was essential to the development ofthe individual and the nation.”—Choice

“Offers insightful applications of historical materialist standpointtheory, discourse analysis, genre theory, and Jane Thompkin’s ‘cul-tural work’ model. Robbins’s precisely focused analysis is illuminat-ing. [She] is to be commended for scrutinizing both the ‘empower-ing vision’ and the ‘troubling limits’ of domestic literary narratives.”—The New England Quarterly








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Crossing BorderlandsComposition and Post-Colonial Studies

edited by ANdReA A. luNsFoRd

and lAhouciNe ouzgANe

“A rich and intensive introduction to postcolonial studies’relationship to composition research and teaching that canprovide educators with a much deeper understanding of whatit means for multicultural students to negotiate American sys-tems of education.”—Multicultural Review

“Provides a dynamic illustration of the changing face of Englishstudies, in part because the essays struggle to define and locatethe field of postcolonial studies within or in relation to it.” —College Literature

Practicing WritingThe Postwar Discourse of Freshman English

thoMAs M. MAsteRs

“A richly detailed history of the freshman English course astaught in three different types of Midwestern universities between1947 and the late 1950s. Through his painstaking examination ofeveryday artifacts such as student essays, syllabi, departmentaland university publications, professors’ papers and interviews,Masters narrates the story of how these universities, which servedas metonyms for three different approaches to higher education,attempted to integrate a new generation of college students intothe literacies valued by the academy and by educated society.”—Composition Studies

“This study provides valuable insights into a more comprehensiveunderstanding of a ‘marginal’ area of higher education. Such ananalysis applied to other nondiscipline areas of study would be ofgreat benefit not only to academia but higher education as well.”—Choice

Local Knowledges, Local PracticesWriting in the Disciplines at Cornell

edited by JoNAthAN MoNRoe

“Teachers have much to learn from this book about writing in otherfields and what their first-year students can expect to be asked todo later in their education. Though focusing on writing programsand instruction, [Monroe] offers a rare glimpse of a range of facul-ty reflecting on their practices as teachers (and learners).”—James Slevin, Georgetown University

Monroe provides an overview of Cornell’s rich history and distinguished

achievements in training students to write well. Including the views of

professors representing a variety of disciplines—from animal science

to political science, anthropology to philosophy, romance studies to

neurobiology—this collection will serve as a resource for anyone inter-

ested in broadly conceived, discipline-specific writing instruction.

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A Geopolitics of Academic WritingA. suResh cANAgARAJAh

Winner of first annual JAc gary A. olson Award (2002)

“A welcome intervention in such fields as English studies, rheto-ric, liguistics, postcolonial theory, and of western knowledge con-struction in general, and the publishing practices of academia inparticular.”—Rocky Mountain Review

“A groundbreaking examination of the complex interactionbetween the center and the periphery in academic discourse. Willstand as a landmark for decades to come.”—Lester Faigley, University of Texas

The Politics of RemediationInstitutional and Student Needs in Higher Education

MARY solidAY


“Demonstrates definitively that use of the term ‘remediation’ inAmerican higher education is far more firmly tied to institution-al and economic circumstances than to students’ actual educa-tional needs or desires. Should be required reading for teachers offirst-year composition.”—Sharon Crowley, Arizona State University

“Deals with the complex political and educational background ofthe rise of open admissions, as well as its failed promise. Solidayis particularly helpful in discussing how the attacks on remedialinstruction have often misrepresented the enterprise.”—John Brereton, University of Massachusetts at Boston

Imagining RhetoricComposing Women of the Early United States

JANet cAReY eldRed and peteR MoRteNseN

“A scholarly and revealing study of how women’s writing devel-oped in the era between the American Revolution and the CivilWar. A truly fascinating look at how educated women used thepower of the pen to promote civic goals, as well as how a newfemale readership emerged and changed the as yet fledgling bookindustry, Imagining Rhetoric is a highly recommended contribu-tion to women’s studies and literary history.”—MidWest Book Review

“Highly recommended as a source for those studying rhetoric andcomposition, American history, educational theory, women’sstudies, women’s history, and philosophy at the upper-divisionundergraduate level and above.”—Choice

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Introducing EnglishEssays in the Intellectual Work of Composition

JAMes F. sleViN

“I sometimes felt as if [Slevin] were writing this book just forme—or to put it another way, to those who have been in this fieldfor the last thirty years, struggling with—and sometimesagainst—each other.”—Andrea A. Lunsford, Stanford University

“I have been familiar with James Slevin’s work for a long time. Ihear his way of thinking operating everywhere in this text, and itis a way of thinking that I admire and from which I learn.”—Patricia Bizzell, College of the Holy Cross

Available MeansAn Anthology of Women’s Rhetoric(s)

edited by JoY Ritchie and KAte RoNAld

“Available Means is an important and unparalleled addition torecent recovery and revisionist scholarship concerning women’srhetoric. Another important work published under the auspices ofthe Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture.”—South Atlantic Review

Available Means offers seventy women rhetoricians—from ancient

Greece to the twenty-first century—a room of their own for the first

time. Arranged chronologically, the volume is designed as a class-

room text that will allow students to hear women speaking to each

other across centuries, and to see how women have added new

places from which arguments can be made.

Traces of a StreamLiteracy and Social Change Among African American Women

JAcqueliNe JoNes RoYsteR


“Not only is ‘Traces’ a significant intellectual contribution to litera-cy studies, it is also a passionate labor of love. A pivotal contribu-tion to sociocultural studies in literacy, women’s studies and thehistory of African American women’s growth as writers.”—Legacy

“More than an ethnographic history or rhetorical analysis: It is amanifesto of survival of African-American women writing them-selves into public subjects, and a template of affirmation for con-temporary scholars of womanist, feminist, African-American,and ethnic rhetorics who want their work taken seriously on itsown terms.”—Rhetoric Review



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Writing/TeachingEssays Toward a Rhetoric of Pedagogy

pAul KAMeeN


“As a deeply moving and highly original consideration of the per-sonal, disciplinary, and institutional complexities surroundingpedagogical representation, Paul Kameen’s book establishes apowerful example.”—Journal of Advanced Composition

“Kameen negotiates the concept of authority better than anyoneelse now working with pedagogy or classroom dynamics.”—College English

Motives for MetaphorLiteracy, Curriculum Reform, and the Teaching of English

JAMes e. seitz

“Fresh perspectives, among other things, is what this book has tooffer. Quite apart from its innovations in the theory of metaphor,Seitz’s argument deserves a wide readership because of the newhorizons it opens on teaching and research.”—Kurt Spellmeyer, Rutgers University

Despite urgent calls for reform, composition, literature, and creative

writing remain territorial, competitive fields. This book imagines ways

in which the three English camps can reconnect. Seitz contends that

the study of metaphor can advance curriculum reform precisely

because of its unusual institutional position. By pronouncing equiva-

lence in the very face of difference, metaphor performs an irrational

discursive act that takes us to the nexus of textual, social, and ideo-

logical questions that have stirred debate recently over the function

of English studies itself.

Composition in the UniversityHistorical and Polemical Essays

shARoN cRoWleY


“A must read, not only for everyone working in rhetoric and com-position but for anyone interested in the future of U.S. highereducation. This remarkable book challenges unexaminedassumptions both inside and outside the field of compositionstudies and suggests provocative solutions to institutional prob-lems plaguing the academic humanities.”—Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine

“A rich source of new research on actual practices in teaching lit-erature and composition. Crowley’s astute analysis invites all tocritique—and finally to forego—the illogic that requires writingcourses that are neither teaching the production of contemporarytexts nor aiming to do so.”—Susan Miller, University of Utah








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Composition-RhetoricBackgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy

RobeRt J. coNNoRs

“An informative and readable history of the traditional pedagogyfavored by teachers and administrators of the first-year collegecomposition course.”—Rhetoric Review

“This book portrays in deft strokes and substantial detail the first for-mulations of a newly emergent subject area—‘composition-rhetoric.’”—Cy Knoblauch, State University of New York at Albany

The Formation of College EnglishRhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces

thoMAs p. MilleR

co-Winner of the 1997 MlA Mina p. shaughnessy prize

“An original work stuffed with data and scholarship about early college-level instruction in the English language.”—College Composition and Communication

“Combining both close attention to scholarly detail and wide-rang-ing (re)vision, this book will speak to those who are interested notonly in the history of English studies but in its future as well.”—South Atlantic Review

“Miller’s book provides a full history of English studies as seenfrom the viewpoint of scholars stationed at the end of twentiethcentury and the beginning of the twenty-first. It is an importantcontribution to the discipline's history.”—Rhetoric Review

The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875-1925A Documentary History

edited by JohN c. bReRetoN


“Brereton does for composition studies what Gerald Graff andMichael Warner did for literary studies: establishes a context forthe discipline’s institutionalization and professionalism in theacademy. The anthology reprints key materials pertinent to the‘origins’ of composition instruction, with an emphasis on the firstyear course, focusing on the period in which it acquires a distinctinstitutional identity.”—Composition Studies

“This impressive scholarly work records, through source docu-ments, the controversies surrounding the beginnings of collegecomposition courses.”—The Quarterly








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Toward a Feminist RhetoricThe Writing of Gertrude Buck

edited by JoANN cAMpbell

The nature of Gertrude Buck, professor of English at Vassar College

from 1897 until her death in 1922, is well-known to anyone interested

in the history of composition. Her writing is less well-known. Campbell

gathers together for the first time the major work of this innovative edu-

cator, including her most important articles on rhetorical theory; The

Social Criticism of Literature, a forerunner of reader-response literary

theory; selections from her textbooks on argumentative and expository

writing; poetry; fiction; her play Mother-Love, and unpublished reports

and correspondence from the English department at Vassar.

PedagogyDisturbing History, 1820-1930

edited by MARioliNA Rizzi sAlVAtoRi

“This is a very important book. It is rich and intelligently collectedand should be in the library of anyone who is interested in the wayour educational theories and practices have developed.”—Mike Rose

Salvatori uses pedagogy as a key term for understanding how

American education evolved in the early twentieth century. She

traces its contested meaning in a fascinating group of documents—

dictionary and encyclopedia definitions, early treatises on pedagogy,

professional literature, and debates about “the place” of pedagogy—

and offers a critical framework for reading them.

Reclaiming RhetoricaWomen in the Rhetorical Tradition

edited by ANdReA A. luNsFoRd

“Presents a lesson in history as well as in rhetorical theory andwomen’s studies. The contributors write with scholarly passionand interdisciplinary expertise.”—Choice

In pathbreaking discussions ranging from ancient Greece, through

the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to modern times, sixteen

closely coordinated essays examine how women have used lan-

guage to reflect their vision of themselves and their age; how they

have used traditional rhetoric and applied it to women’s discourse;

and how women have contributed to rhetorical theory.








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The Labyrinths of LiteracyReflections on Literacy Past and Present

Revised edition

hARVeY J. gRAFF

“Graff has been busily ‘deconstructing’ our conventional concep-tions of literacy as a precondition to meaningful reconstruction. Inchapters that vary in focus, depth and nature of criticism, andexplicitness of theoretical and policy orientations, Graff offers hisreaders a series of compass readings that have led him into—butnot necessarily out of—the labyrinth of literacy.”—Journal of Educational Administration and History

A compelling collection by one of the pioneers of revisionist

approaches to the history of literacy in North America and Europe,

this book offers original and controversial views on the relation of lit-

eracy to society, leading the way for scholars and citizens who are

willing to question the importance and function of literacy in the

development of society today.

Academic Discourse and Critical ConsciousnesspAtRiciA bizzell

“A superb exploration of how ideas concerning ‘discourse communities’ influence the way writing should be taught inAmerican colleges.” —Choice

These essays trace one writing teacher’s attempts to understand the-

oretically—and to respond pedagogically—to what happens when

students from diverse backgrounds learn to use language in college.

Bizzell calls her previous work into question on the grounds that her

self-appointment as an advocate for basic writers may have been pre-

sumptuous, and her hopes for the politically liberating effects of aca-

demic discourse misplaced. She calls for a theory of discourse that

acknowledges the need to argue for values and pedagogy that can

assist these arguments to proceed more inclusively than ever before.

Fragments of RationalityPostmodernity and the Subject of Composition

lesteR FAigleY


and the 1992 MlA Mina p. shaughnessy prize

“Very much like reading Foucault at his clearest and most con-vincing. This book is written with real authority.”—James Slevin, Georgetown University

“A well written and important book, as relevant to the field of pro-fessional communication as to the broader field of composition.”—Technical Communication Quarterly





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Eating on the StreetTeaching Literacy in a Multicultural Society

dAVid schAAFsMA

“An interesting professional resource for teachers, especially writ-ing teachers, since Schaafsma explains how students wereencouraged to write without having teachers’ values imposedupon them. It is fascinating to see how the theories of writing areput into practice in this challenging urban setting.”—Kliatt

“[Schaafsma's] conclusions mark as significant a point as to howwe educate our nation’s children as well as anything JonathanKozol has written over the years.” —The State Journal (Madison, Wisconsin)

Language, Rhythm, and SoundBlack Popular Cultures into the Twenty-first Century

edited by Joseph K. AdJAYe and AdRiANNe R. ANdReWs

“I cannot stress too often the originality of this collection. It is afirst in the field. The writing, editing, and organization are evenand inviting to the general reader as well as the specialist. Amuch-needed cutting-edge collection.”—Haki Madhubuti, Chicago State University

Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls’ Double

Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from Terry McMillan’s

Waiting to Exhale to the work of Zora Neale Hurston; from South

African workers to Just Another Girl on the IRT; from the history of

Rasta to the evolving significance of kente cloth, from rap video

music to hip-hop to zouk.

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AUTHOR INDEX

Adjaye, Joseph K.………………………27

Amorose, Thomas ………………………5

Andrews, Adrianne R. …………………27

Applegarth, Risa …………………………4

Beale, Walter H. ………………………16

Bizzell, Patricia …………………………26

Bowen, Tracey……………………………8

Browne, Kevin Adonis …………………7

Brereton, John C. ………………………24

Campbell, JoAnn ………………………25

Canagarajah, A. Suresh ………………21

Connors, Robert J. ……………………24

Crowley, Sharon……………………18, 23

Daniell, Beth ……………………………5

Davis, Diane ……………………………14

DeGenaro, William ……………………17

Dingo, Rebecca ……………………10, 12

Donahue, Patricia ………………………17

Eldred, Janet Carey ………………11, 21

Faigley, Lester …………………………26

Fleming, David …………………………13

Gere, Anne Ruggles ……………………5

Gorzelsky, Gwen ………………………19

Graff, Harvey J. …………………………26

Hawk, Byron ……………………………16

Jurecic, Ann ……………………………10

Kameen, Paul ………………………14, 23

Lamos, Steve ……………………………13

Lunsford, Andrea A. ………………20, 25

Masters, Thomas M.……………………20

Mayers, Tim ……………………………18

Miller, Richard E. ………………………19

Miller, Thomas P. …………………14, 24

Monroe, Barbara…………………………6

Monroe, Jonathan ……………………20

Moon, Gretchen Flesher ………………17

Mortensen, Peter ………………………21

Ouzgane, Lahoucine……………………20

Prendergast, Catherine…………………16

Rawson, K. J.……………………………15

Rice, Jenny ………………………………9

Rickert, Thomas ……………………8, 17

Ritchie, Joy ……………………………22

Ritter, Kelly ……………………………11

Robbins, Sarah …………………………19

Ronald, Kate ……………………………22

Royster, Jacqueline Jones ……………22

Salvatori, Mariolina Rizzi ……………25

Schaafsma, David ………………………27

Schell, Eileen E.…………………………15

Scott, J. Blake …………………………12

Seitz, James E. …………………………23

Shaver, Lisa J. …………………………12

Shipka, Jody ……………………………13

Slevin, James F.…………………………22

Soliday, Mary……………………………21

Stanley, Jane ……………………………15

Stromberg, Ernest………………………18

Sullivan, Patricia Suzanne………………9

Vander Lei, Elizabeth ……………………5

Wan, Amy J. ……………………………3

Whithaus, Carl……………………………8

Zwagerman, Sean………………………15

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