ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, offering a dynamic overview of the history of and scholarly research in this field.
The handbook features rhetorical scholarship that explicitly uses and extends insights from work in queer and trans theories to understand and critique intersections of rhetoric, gender, class, and sexuality. More important, chapters also attend to the intersections of constructs of queerness with race, class, ability, and neurodiversity. In so doing, the book acknowledges the many debts contemporary queer theory has to work by scholars of color, feminists, and activists, inside and outside the academy. The first book of its kind, the handbook traces and documents the emergence of this subfield within rhetorical studies while also pointing the way toward new lines of inquiry, new trajectories in scholarship, and new modalities and methods of analysis, critique, intervention, and speculation.
This handbook is an invaluable resource for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students studying rhetoric, communication, cultural studies, and queer studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|79 pages
Histories, Re-Histories, Archives
chapter 6|8 pages
Printing a Queer Identity
chapter 9|8 pages
Re-Historicizing the “Lacking South”
part Section II|77 pages
Methodologies
chapter 14|7 pages
Blake Brockington's Rhetorical Afterlife
chapter 15|7 pages
Histories in (Trans)lation
part Section III|57 pages
Communities
chapter 20|7 pages
“Let's Get Some Family Chosen”
chapter 25|7 pages
“People Can't Say I'm a Man, They Can't Say I'm a Woman”
chapter 26|7 pages
Converging in a Room of Our Own
part Section IV|83 pages
Identities
chapter 27|7 pages
Prescribe for Me, Doctor, for I Have Sex
chapter 28|7 pages
Making Nothing Out of Something
part Section V|80 pages
Provocations & Interventions
chapter 41|10 pages
Rhetorical Work
part Section VI|81 pages
Speculations