Queering public address : sexualities in American historical discourse
"In Queering Public Address 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 critiques that work to deepen their fulfillment."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2007
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C., ©2007
History
x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9781570036644, 1570036640
76864049
Introduction : portrait of a queer rhetorical/historical critic / Charles E. Morris III
The first lady's privates : queering Eleanor Roosevelt for public address studies / Dana L. Cloud
Civil rights movements and queer identities : complexities of the collective subject / Ralph R. Smith and Russel R. Windes
Harvey Milk and the queer rhetorical situation : a rhetoric of contradiction / Karen A. Foss
My old Kentucky homo : Abraham Lincoln, Larry Kramer, and the politics of queer memory / Charles E. Morris III
On the development of counter-racist quare public address studies / Julie M. Thompson
Lucy Lobdell's queer circumstances / John M. Sloop
Queer Harlem : exploring the rhetorical limits of a black gay "utopia" / Eric King Watts
Speak up! I can't queer you! / Robert Alan Brookey
The rhetoric of intersectionality : Lorraine Hansberry's 1957 letters to the Ladder / Lisbeth Lipari
Traumatic styles in public address : Audre Lorde's discourse as exemplar / Lester C. Olson
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