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Illiteracy As Immanent: The (Re)Writing Of Rhetoric's Nature, Michael Kennedy
Illiteracy As Immanent: The (Re)Writing Of Rhetoric's Nature, Michael Kennedy
Honors College
Literacy is often thought of as a skill-set, that is, an ability to read and write in the dominant language of one’s socio-historical milieu. Illiteracy, on the other hand, is often thought of as a lack – an absence of a necessary skill-set that influences how well one can work and communicate (via reading and writing) within their dominant language and their society. In other words, illiteracy seems to have been defined by its relationship to the definition of literacy, that is, as a “negative-literacy” or a “not-literacy” that creates a lacuna of meaning when attempting to define illiteracy as …