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Outbursts in Academe advances a new theoretical notion in the composition classroom: the concept of "outburst" as a single, researchable moment in the lives of teachers and students. "Outbursts are not reducible to 'resistance' to 'oppression'," Kathleen Dixon reminds us in the introduction. "An emotional display made in a classroom or at a conference might feel good at the moment, feel bad later, advance one's cause, and set it back simultaneously. Further, one person's outburst may create the conditions for another person's silence."

This thought-provoking collection is comprised of an introduction that establishes a definition for "outbursts," seven original essays, and seven responses to the essays. Contributors include young scholars from a range of disciplines and interdisciplines such as composition studies, English education, Chicano/a literature and language, socio-linguistics, and Native American studies. In general, more established scholars in composition and English education occupy the role of respondent.

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Contents

Contents:
Introduction: Outbursts: The Theory and a Guide to Reading, K. Dixon & W. Archibald
I. Immodest Proposals
1. Cyborg Bodies: Race, Class, Gender, and Communications Technology, C. Winkelmann
2. Macho in the Killing Zone or How to Survive Multicultural Reality, B. Davis
Responses: Whose Icon?, J. Degan; Beyond Stereotypes: Las Latinas Caught Between Linguas y Culturas, A. Perez; Responsibility, J. Schilb
Inter-view One: Reading Conflict in English Studies, K. Dixon
II. Classroom Conflicts
3. Revisiting White Feminist Authority or Gang Life in the University Classroom, K. Dixon
4. Essays That Never Were: Deaf Identity and Resistance in the Mainstream Classroom, J. Anderson
5. A Captivity Narrative: Indians, Mixedbloods, and the "White" Academy, S. Lyons
Responses: "Mixedblood" Rhetorics and the Concept of "Outbursts," P. Bizzell; Beyond Liberal and Cultural Approaches to Social Justice, E. Flynn
III. Formations of "Multicultural" Selves and Institutions
Inter-view Two: Lost Outbursts, K. Dixon
6. Super-Mammy or Super-Sellout? Young, Black, and Female in the Academy, D. Paul
7. "Lost and Melted in the Pot": Multicultural Literacy in Predominantly White Classrooms, D. Starke-Meyerring
Response: Dangerous Critique: Academic Freedom and Institutional Constraint, S. Dilks