National healing : race, state, and the teaching of composition / Claude Hurlbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurlbert, C. Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Social aspects--United States.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; New Orleans: A Prayer; I. Cage : The Provincial Composition; Learning New Ways #1; Making a Past a Past and a Life a Life; 1975; The Most Important Class; 1980; Speaking of Love; "It Had Better Be Worth It"; The Use and Abuse of History; A New Beginning; The Babel Effect; A Question of Service; More Than One; International Composition #1; No New Colonialism, Then; Transcending Transnationalism?; International Composition #2; And to Go Beyond the Words; The Styles; Rhetorical Boundaries and Agency; Part of the Story

Rhetorical Traditions: A Statement about MethodologyFor Instance, a Mindful Rhetoric; Voices from the Dark; Voices from the Light; Museum Pieces; Oh, Multicultural America; A Recent History, a Decent Future; What Will the Yard Sales Say?; II. Circulations : The Composing of Composition; Why Ezra?; Nationalism; Is It Patriotism or Is It Nationalism?; Critical Literacy; A Decent Nation; A Nation's Cultural Centrism; When You Do the Research; The Global Nothing; And So?; In Other Words, It Carries Over; III. Key: The Composition Classroom; Exhibit A; What Are You Burning to Tell the World?

The Class WorkshopBooks; Why a Book?; Forewords; Ubuntu: Rhetorical Principles at Work; Mindful Teaching; When We Compose; National Recalcitrance; There Is No Rhetoric, but There Is Hope; The International Sustainable Literacy Project; IV. Uncaged: The International Future of Composition; Mistakes and Beyond; International Composition #3; On the Road with International Composition; World Englishes; World Compositions; Securing Composition; Saving the Planet; Learning New Ways #2; Coda; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781457184598

1457184591

9781283742542

1283742543

9780874218367

0874218365

OCLC:

819330144