Queering Public Address: Sexualities in American Historical Discourse - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1570036640 ISBN 13 : 9781570036644

Editeur : University of South Carolina Press, 2007

Synopsis

Ten noted rhetorical critics disrupt the silence regarding nonnormative sexualities in the study of American historical discourse and upend the heteronormativity that governs much of rhetorical history. Reconfiguring Quintilian's mandate that an orator is a good man speaking well, contributors grapple at the intersection of rhetoric, history, and sexuality as they interrogate historically situated discursive performances, politics, and meanings of the ""good queer speaking well."" Enacting both political and radical visions, these scholars articulate the promises of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender public address and the queer critiques that work to deepen their fulfillment. The contributors consider figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harvey Milk, Marlon Riggs, and Lorraine Hansberry; and issues as diverse as collective identity, nineteenth-century semiotics of gender and sexuality, the sexual politics of the Harlem Renaissance, psychiatric productions of the queer, and violence-induced traumatic styles.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Charles E. Morris is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Boston College and an editor of Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1570036640
• ISBN 13: 9781570036644
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Morris Charles E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible