College English, Vol. 71, No. 1, September 2008

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• Teaching Cross-Racial Texts: Cultural Theft in The Secret Life of Bees

  Laurie Grobman

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  Abstract: Author Sue Monk Kidd, who is white, employs stereotypes of African Americans and problematically appropriates features of black writing in her novel "The Secret Life of Bees". Nevertheless, this book is worth teaching, not only because it has acquired much cultural capital but also because it offers students a way to examine relationships between whites and blacks in American literature and culture.

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• Object Lessons: Teaching Multiliteracies through the Museum

  John Pedro Schwartz

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  Abstract: The author calls for incorporating into English classes what he calls museum-based pedagogy, arguing that it enables the teaching of multiple literacies: verbal, visual, technological, social, and critical. In part, this pedagogy consists of classroom instruction that enables students to understand the persuasive nature of museum displays—the ways in which digital technology mediates, powerful interests influence, social agents negotiate, and multimodal texts communicate meaning.

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• Stepping outside the “Ladies’ Department”: Women’s Expanding Rhetorical Boundaries

  Lisa Shaver

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  Abstract: Study of the weekly Methodist newspaper "Christian Advocate", from its inception in 1826 to 1832, reveals that Methodist women came to assume important, public, and rarely acknowledged rhetorical roles. More precisely, women moved beyond the confines of the newspaper’s “Ladies’ Department,” the back-page space to which “women’s concerns” were initially consigned.

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• Review: Retelling the Composition-Literature Story

  Laura Brady

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  Abstract: Reviewed are "Composition and/or Literature: The End(s) of Education", edited by Linda S. Bergmann and Edith M. Baker, and "Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction: First-Year English, Humanities Core Courses, Seminars", edited by Judith H. Anderson and Christine R. Farris.

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• Review: Historicizing Rhetorical Education

  Patricia Harkin

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  Abstract: Reviewed are "Archives of Instruction: Nineteenth-Century Rhetorics, Readers, and Composition Books in the United States" by Jean Ferguson Carr, Stephen L. Carr, and Lucille M. Schultz; "The Knowledge Contract: Politics and Paradigms in the Academic Workplace" by David B. Downing; and "Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres" by Hugh Blair, edited by Linda Ferreira-Buckley and Michael S. Halloran.

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• Comment & Response: A Comment on “Pedagogical In Loco Parentis: Reflecting on Power and Parental Authority in the Writing Classroom”

  Tim Taylor/JoAnne Podis and Leonard Podis

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• Announcements and Calls for Papers

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