College English, Vol. 66, No. 3, January 2004

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• Tlaltelolco: The Grammatical-Rhetorical Indios of Colonial Mexico

  Susan Romano

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  Abstract: This essay focuses on the grammar-rhetoric-composition program at the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco, a sixteenth-century institution of higher education in Mexico, to argue for a more amply conceived set of colonialist beginnings for American composition. As an emergent site for North American composition-rhetoric, Tlaltelolco launched phenomena familiar to contemporary scholarship, for example composition-rhetoric as attractor for public debates about race and class, as sponsor of debased curricula for people of color, and as re-enforcer of linkages among color, class, aptitude, and local discourse practices.

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• Who Killed Annabel Lee? Writing about Literature in the Composition Classroom

  Mark Richardson

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  Abstract: The author reopens the vexed question of the use of literature in first-year composition courses to suggest that reading and writing about literature can empower students to construct their own interpretations of cultural artifacts rather than deferring to canonical knowledge. Using his students’ work with Poe’s “Annabel Lee” as an example, he shows how such a practice can work if it places the work in a context appropriate to the literacies of first-year students and privileges the knowledge they bring with them to the academy.

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• Research and Reflection in English Studies: The Special Case of Creative Writing

  Patrick Bizzaro

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  Abstract: This essay considers why some subjects associated with English studies achieve disciplinary status while others, such as theory and multicultural literature, fail to do so, suggesting that what is required for such status is the establishment of epistemological difference from other areas in the field. The author uses the example of creative writing’s emergence as a model of what it means to achieve disciplinary status, what benefits accrue to a field that does, and who stands to gain from that emergence.

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• Democracy, Capitalism, and the Ambivalence of Willa Cather's Frontier Rhetorics: Uncertain Foundations of the U.S. Public University System

  Catherine Chaput

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  Abstract: The author argues that, far from being a recent development, the corporatization of the university has been part of the often uneasy coexistence of democratic and capitalist interests throughout the history of the U.S. university system. She explores the relationship among higher education, democracy, and corporatization within Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Professor’s House to demonstrate an early public recognition of this corporatization as well as the way it has been historically obfuscated.

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• REVIEW: Truth and Method: What Goes On in Writing Classes, and How Do We Know?

  Michael Bernard-Donals

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  Abstract: Reviewed are: Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers, by Lee Ann Carroll, and Misunderstanding the Assignment: Teenage Students, College Writing, and the Pains of Growth, by Doug Hunt.

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• COMMENT: A Comment on Harriet Malinowitz's "Business, Pleasure, and the Personal Essay"

  Karen Paley

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• ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS

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