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- ISSN: 0007-8204
- E-ISSN: 1943-2216
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The Skin We Ink: Tattoos, Literacy, and a New English Education
- Source: English Education, Volume 41, Issue 4, Jul 2009, p. 375 - 395
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- 01 Jul 2009
Abstract
David E. Kirkland turns our attention to the ways tattoos can represent “human” stories of literacy through the power of inked flesh, the self-portrait it creates, and the words and worlds that surround the body. The body, for Kirkland, is an important site of cultural production that represents the transformative, political, and personal terrains of literacy.
© 2009 by the National Council of Teachers of English.