Resistance: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 3 March 2007

Bell, Sandra, M. Morrow, and Evangelis Tastsoglou.  "Teaching in Environments of Resistance:  Toward a Critical, Feminist, and Antiracist Pedagogy."  Meeting the Challenge:  Innovative Feminist Pedagogies in Action.  Ed. Maralee Mayberry and Ellen Cronan Rose.  New York:  Routledge, 1999. 

Blitz, Michael, and C. Mark Hurlbert.  "An Uncomfortable State of Mind."  Composition and Resistance.  Ed. C. Mark Hurlbert and Michael Blitz.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 1991.  43-46. 

Boyd, Richard.  "Reading Student Resistance:  The Case of the Missing Other."  JAC:  A Journal of Composition Theory 19.4 (1999):  589-606. 

Bramblett, Anne, and Alison Knoblauch, eds.  What to Expect When You're Expected to Teach:  The Anxious Craft of Teaching Composition.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2002. 

Brown, Stephen.  "Orphans of Oppression:  The Passive Resistance of Bicultural Alienation."  Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Ed. Andrea Greenbaum.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 2001. 

Chaney, Sarah Biggs.  "Study of Teacher Error:  Misreading Resistance in the Basic Writing Classroom."  Journal of Basic Writing 23.1 (Spring 2004):  25-38. 

Change. 

Chappell, Virginia A.  "'But Isn't This the Land of the Free?":  Resistance and Discovery in Student Response to Farewell to Manzanr."  Writing in Multicultural Settings.  Ed. Carol Severino, Juan C. Guerra, and Johnnella E. Butler.  New York:  MLA, 1997.  172-88. 

Chase, Geoffrey.  "Accommodation, Resistance, and the Politics of Student Writing."  College Composition and Communication 39 (1988):  13-22.

Durst, Russel K..  Collision Course:  Conflict, Negotiation, and Learning in College Composition.  Urbana, Il;  National Council of Teachers of English, 1999.

Dzaka, David.  "Resisting Writing:  Reflections on the Postcolonial Factor in the Writing Class." Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Post-Colonial Studies.  Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane. U Pittsburgh P, 2004.  157-170. 

Elahi, Babak. "Resistance, Accommodation, or Haggling: Postcolonial Theory and International Business Communication." JAC 25.3 (2005): 571-586.

Elbow, Peter.  Everyone Can Write:  Essays Toward a Hopeful Theory of Writing.  New York:  Oxford UP, 2000. 

Enoch, Jessica.  "Resisting the Script of Indian Education:  Zitkala Sa and the Carlisle Indian School."  College English 65.2 (November 2002):  117-141. 

Enoch, Jessica.  "'Semblances of Civilization':  Zitkala Sa's Resistance to White Education." Rhetoric and Ethnicity. Ed. Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  24-36.

Farber, Jerry.  Student as Nigger:  Essays and Other Stories.  New York:  Pocket Books, 1970. 

Finders, Margaret J. Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High. New York: Teacher's College P, 1997.

Finders, Margaret J. "Literacy, Gender, and Adolescence: School-Sponsored English as Identity Maintenance." The Relevance of English: Teaching that Matters in Students' Lives. Eds. Robert P. Yagelski and Scott A. Leonard. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2002. 82-104.

Finders, Margaret J. "Queens and Teen Zines: Early Adolescent Females Reading Their Way toward Adulthood." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 27.1 (Mar 1996): 71-89.

Finders, Margaret J. "Raging Hormones: Stories of Adolescence and Implications for Teacher Preparation." Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 42.4 (Dec-Jan 1998-99): 252-63.

Flynn, Elizabeth.  "Strategic, Counter-Strategic, and Reactive Resistance in the Feminist Classroom."  Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Ed. Andrea Greenbaum.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 2001. 

Fox, Tom.  "Race and Collective Resistance."  Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Ed. Andrea Greenbaum.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 2001. 

Freisinger, Randall R.  "Voicing the Self:  Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance in a Postmodern Age."  Voices on Voice: Definitions, Perspectives, Inquiry.  Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey.  Urbana, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 1994.  242-274.

Gilyard, Keith, and Elaine Richardson.  "Students' Right to Possibility:  Basic Writing and African American Rhetoric."  Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Ed. Andrea Greenbaum.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 2001. 

Gray-Rosendale, Laura.  "Geographies of Resistance:  Rhetorics of Race and Mobility in Arna Bontemps' Sad-Faced Boy (1937)."  Alternative Rhetorics:  Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition.  Ed. Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 2001.  149-166. 

Greenbaum, Andrea.  "'Bitch' Pedagogy:  Agonistic Discourse and the Politics of Resistance."  Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Ed. Andrea Greenbaum.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 2001. 

Greenbaum, Andrea, ed.  Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 2001. 

Hardin, Joe Marshall.  Opening Spaces:  Critical Pedagogy and Resistance Theory in Composition..  Albany:  SUNY UP. 

Hase, M.  "Student Resistance and Nationalism in the Classroom:  Reflections on Globalizing the Curriculum."  Twenty-First-Century Feminist Classrooms:  Pedagogies of Identity and Difference.  Ed. Amie A. MacDonald and Susan SanchŽz-Casal.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 

hooks, bell.  "marginality as site of resistance."  Out There:  Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures.  Ed. Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Cornel West.  New York:  New Museum of Contemporary Art;  Cambridge, MA:  MIP P, 1990.  341-343. 

Horner, Bruce.  "Resisting Academics."  Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Ed. Andrea Greenbaum.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 2001. 

Hurlbert, Mark, and Michael Blitz, eds.  Composition and Resistance.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 1991. 

Hurlbert, C. Mark, and Michael Blitz.  "Resisting Composure."  Composition and Resistance.  Ed. C. Mark Hurlbert and Michael Blitz.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 1991.  1-11. 

Kill, Melanie. "Acknowledging the Rough Edges of Resistance: Negotiation of Identities for First-Year Composition." College Composition and Communication 58.2 (Dec. 2006).

Kopelson, Karen.  "Rhetoric on the Edge of Cunning;  Or, The Performance of Neutrality  (Re)Considered as a Composition Pedagogy for Student Resistance." College Composition and Communication 55.1 (September 2003):  115-146. 

Liberatory pedagogy. 

Macedo, Donaldo.  "Our Common Culture:  A Poisonous Pedagogy." Critical Education in the Information Age. By Manuel Castells, Ram—n Flecha, Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux, Donaldo Macedo, and Paul Willis.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.  117-138. 

McLaren, Peter.  "Traumatizing Capital:  Oppositional Pedagogies in the Age of Consent." Critical Education in the Information Age. By Manuel Castells, Ram—n Flecha, Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux, Donaldo Macedo, and Paul Willis.  Lanham, MD:  Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.  1-36. 

Milanes, Cecilia Rodr’guez.  "Risks, Resistance, and Rewards:  One Teacher's Story."  Composition and Resistance.  Ed. C. Mark Hurlbert and Michael Blitz.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 1991.  115-126. 

Miraglia, Eric.  "Resistance and the Writing Teacher." JAC:  A Journal of Composition Theory 17.3 (1997):  415-436. 

Moreno, Renee M.  "'The Politics of Location':  Text as Opposition."  College Composition and Communication 54.2 (December 2002):  222-242. 

Paine, Charles.  The Resistant Writer:  Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to the Present.  Albany:  SUNY P, 1999. 

Perry, William G., Jr. "The 600-Word Theme and Human Dignity." College English 14.8 (1953): 454-460.

Powell, Katrina M., Peggy O'Neill, Cassandra Mach Phillips, and Brian Huot.  "Negotiating Resistance and Change:  One Composition Program's Struggle Not to Convert."  Preparing College Teachers of Writing: Histories, Theories, Practices, and Programs.  Ed. Betty Pytlik and Sarah Liggett.  Oxford UP, 2002.  121-134. 

Rodby, Judith.  "The Subject is Literacy:  General Education and the Dialectics of Power and Resistance in the Writing Center."  Writing Center Research:  Extending the Conversation.  Ed. Paula Gillespie, Alice Gillam, Lady Falls Brown, and Byron Stay.  Mahwah, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.  221-234. 

Skorczewski, Dawn, and Matthew Parfitt, eds.  Conflicts and Crises in the Composition ClassroomÑand What Instructors Can Do About Them.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2003. 

Sledd, James.  "How We Apples Swim."  Composition and Resistance.  Ed. C. Mark Hurlbert and Michael Blitz.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 1991.  145-153.

Spack, Ruth.  "Teaching across Cultures."  College English 58.5 (September 1996):  592-7. 

Spidell, Cathy, and William H. Thelin. "Not Ready to Let Go: A Study of Resistance to Grading Contracts." Composition Studies 34.1 (Spring 2006): 35-70.

Strenski, Ellen.  "Fa(c)ulty Wiring?  Energy, Power, Work and Resistance."  Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Ed. Andrea Greenbaum.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 2001. 

Strickland, Ronald. "Confrontational Pedagogy and Traditionoal Literary Studies." College English 52.3 (March 1990): 291-300.

Trimbur, John.  "Resistance as a Tragic Trope."  Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Ed. Andrea Greenbaum.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 2001.  3-16. 

Tuman, Myron.  Language and Limits:  Resisting Reform in English Studies.  Albany:  SUNY P, 1998. 

Wells, Susan.  "The Literalization of Metaphor and the Boundaries of Resistance."  Insurrections:  Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies.  Ed. Andrea Greenbaum.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 2001. 

West, Cornel.  "The New Cultural Politics of Difference."  The Cultural Studies Reader.  Ed. Simon During.  New York:  Routledge, 1993.  203-217. 

Williams, Bronwyn T.  "Speak for Yourself?  Power and Hybridity in the Cross-Cultural Classroom."  College Composition and Communication 54.4 (June 2003):  586-609. 

 




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