This article examines discursive and methodological complexities involved in publishing writing by marginalized figures. The analysis is framed by the notion of “raw material” through which particular writers are excluded from communities of scholars, human rights workers, and agents of the state. It offers a close reading of one writer and examines the context in which she is published. It performs a critical examination of the visual rhetorics of each volume, and argues that these texts are infused with a savior narrative that promotes the “good work” of the NGO but infantilizes the writers and pre-empts their reentrance into the public sphere. This article ends by proposing ways of reading that might lead to relationships of solidarity and so produce oppositional rhetorics capable of disrupting public, academic, and state-based discourses of measurement.
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