I'm happy to announce that volume 2, issue 1 of KB Journal is now ready for reading and commentary (KB = Kenneth Burke). It includes three essays, several book reviews, and some new Happenings. In this issue you’ll find articles on Native American rhetoric, advertising, and trained incapacity by some promising young scholars. KB Journal publishes articles under a Creative Commons license (one of the first in rhet/comp to do so) and is using Drupal as the platform. The new work includes:

Symbolic Suicide as Mortification, Transformation, and Counterstatement: The Conciliatory (Yet) Resistant Surrender of Maka-tai-mesh-ekia-kiak
Jason Edward Black, University of Alabama

Sociological Propaganda: A Burkean and Girardian Analysis of Twentieth-Century American Advertising
Kathleen M. Vandenberg

"Trained Incapacity": Thorstein Veblen and Kenneth Burke
Erin Wais, University of Minnesota

In the book review section, you will find the following:

• Bobbitt, David A. The Rhetoric of Redemption: Kenneth Burke’s Redemption Drama and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech.” Reviewed by Nathaniel I. Córdova.
• Coupe, Laurence. Kenneth Burke on Myth: An Introduction. Reviewed by Daniel L. Smith.
• Manolescu, Beth Innocenti. “Formal Propriety as Rhetorical Norm.” Reviewed by Maegan Parker.
• Anderson, Dana. “Questioning the Motives of Habituated Action: Burke and Bourdieu on Practice.” Reviewed by Melanie McNaughton.

In the “Happenings” section, we list winners of the 2005 Kenneth Burke Society awards and a call for papers from Central States Communication Association.

Enjoy!

Dave
KB Journal Consulting Editor