Creating Presence from Absence and Sound from Silence

Romeo Garcia

doi:10.25148/clj.13.1.009086

Community Literacy Journal Jan 2019 Open Access

Creating Presence from Absence and Sound from Silence

Romeo Garcia

Abstract

This provocation centers on the question, ¿Dónde comenzamos? Working at the tension between community and academic listening, I argue that community listening departs from individualism and mere presence as the genesis for listening. Rather, it re-situates the individual within constellations of stories, genealogies, ghosts, and hauntings. It invites, in a Derridean way, a politics of responsibility and justice towards the past, present, and future. Specifically, this provocation dares its readers in writing and rhetorical studies to take community listening seriously; to find solace both with the inability to extract and foreclose upon all knowledges and the inaccessibility for some of community listening.

Journal: Community Literacy Journal
Published: 2019-01-01
DOI: 10.25148/clj.13.1.009086
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Topics: rhetorical criticism
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