Daniell – Narratives of Literacy: Connecting Composition to Culture

Daniell, Beth. “Narratives of Literacy: Connecting Composition to Culture.” College Composition and Communication, 50 (1999): 393-410. D. notes that the turn toward literacy in the 70s and 80s was the result of a staid presence by Marxist theory and ethnography.  Literacy – as she defines it – “connects composition, with its emphasis on students and classrooms, to the social, political, economic, historical, and cultural”... Read More

CCR751

Week One Additional Readings Keith Gilyard, Introduction:  Aspects of African American Rhetoric as a Field from African American Rhetorics:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, Introduction:  Resistance, Reform, and Renewal in the African American Experience, from Let Nobody Turn Us Around Geneva Smitherman, “How I Got Ovuh:  African World View and Afro-American Oral Tradition” from Talkin that Talk: ... Read More