On The Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing

Document Type

Book Review

Authors

• Piers Kelly, The University of New EnglandFollow

Author Biography

Piers Kelly is a linguistic anthropologist at the University of New England, Australia, whose research centers on the anthropology of writing and graphic codes. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany. His book on the history of the Eskayan language and script is The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines (Oxford, 2022).

Abstract

The Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing by Melanie McMahon. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Recommended Citation

Kelly, Piers (2024) "On The Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing," Criticism: Vol. 66: Iss. 2, Article 7.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/criticism/vol66/iss2/7