With the aid of feedback from children, adults, and educators, I formed the
Illiterature Hypothesis.
Following her close analysis of the works of Ginsberg and DeLillo, Hungerford's fourth chapter, "The Bible and
Illiterature," first explores how debates about teaching the Bible in public schools foregrounded the idea that it could be variously interpretable.
'They are not literature, but
illiterature', he wrote in the introduction to the anthology.