God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence - Couverture souple

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Cobb, Michael

 
9780814716694: God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence
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ISBN 10 : 0814716695 ISBN 13 : 9780814716694
Editeur : New York University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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At the funeral of Matthew Shepard--the young Wyoming man brutally murdered for being gay--the Reverend Fred Phelps led his parishioners in protest, displaying signs with slogans like "Matt Shepard rots in Hell," "Fags Die God Laughs," and "God Hates Fags." In counter-protest, activists launched an "angel action," dressing in angel costumes, with seven-foot high wings, and creating a visible barrier so one would not have to see the hateful signs.
Though long thought of as one of the most virulently anti-gay genres of contemporary American politics and culture, in God Hates Fags, Michael Cobb maintains that religious discourses have curiously figured as the most potent and pervasive forms of queer expression and activism throughout the twentieth century. Cobb focuses on how queers have assumed religious rhetoric strategically to respond to the violence done against them, alternating close readings of writings by James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Jean Toomer, Dorothy Allison, and Stephen Crane with critical legal and political analyses of Supreme Court Cases and anti-gay legislation. He also pays deep attention to the political strategies, public declarations, websites, interviews, and other media made by key religious right organizations that have mounted the most successful regulations and condemnations of homosexuality.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Cobb is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence, also published by New York University Press.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814716695
ISBN 13 
9780814716694
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
229
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ISBN 10 :  0814716687 ISBN 13 :  9780814716687
Editeur : New York University Press, 2006
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