Book Review| September 01 2018 The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness. Edited by E. Johanna Hartelius. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2015; pp. vii + 302. $94.95 cloth; 29.95 paper. Jennifer J. Asenas; Jennifer J. Asenas California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin A. Johnson Kevin A. Johnson California State University, Long Beach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2018) 21 (3): 547–550. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer J. Asenas, Kevin A. Johnson; The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2018; 21 (3): 547–550. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.21.3.0547 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2018 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The purpose of this essay is to advance the importance of the Lacanian registers for rhetorical scholarship by focusing (paradoxically) on the register of the Real. We argue that the Real functions as a condition of (im)possibility of critical invention for rhetorical critique. We advance five varieties of the Real that disrupt the coherence of rhetorical method/perspective and rhetorical formations: (1) the Real as Void, (2) The Real as Return, (3) The Real as Enjoyment, (4) The Real as Recalcitrance, and (5) The Real as Materiality.