... by Frances Gage twelve years after Truth delivered it, communicates an intentionally feminist message. Gage’s popular and well-­read version of Truth’s speech contains detailed narrative asides regarding Truth’s physical presence and her audi- ence’s response to her words. The content...

... on numerous fronts and occasions in the field of com- position. Some have feared that teaching thesis- driven argument encour- ages students to defend prematurely derived or already held positions (see Gage 1996; Dubrow 2002). Perhaps most salient and notable, feminists and others have objected to argument s...

... committed to their own political agendas that they have trouble accepting what they perceive as, at best, apathy or, at worst, ignorance. There is, however, another form of student resistance that is not fully addressed within our scholarship. In this form, students do not simply disen- gage with politics...

... themselves and what they perceived as the oppressive presence of their whiteness. The uncomfortable murmuring following the last attempt by a white student to construct such a nonwhite identity was hardly the dynamic, en- gaged, critical conversation I had hoped to evoke. The African American students made...

... the which a moiety competent Was gaged by our king, which had return’d To the inheritance of Fortinbras, Had he been vanquisher, as, by the same cov’nant And carriage of the article design’d, His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras, Of unimproved mettle hot and full, Hath in the skirts...

... of rereading and reen- gaging the passages they originally chose for class recitation and discussion. This process would also entail a critical reengagement with their own original sets of comments, questions, and reactions. As usual, they would record this activity in their notebooks and be prepared...

... like simple questions, but in a close-reading class they can be answered only by trying out different renditions aloud, which takes time. There were other questions, too. What does blood mean at diff- erent points in this scene? What is the stage business with the gage of chal- lenge? If you were...

... neglecting to acknowledge or accommodate students’ and our own geographical knowledge (or lack thereof). To achieve a more global perspective, therefore, the discipline must make a concerted effort to disen- gage from its habits of rhetorical immappancy and to continually promote a more nuanced view...