Queering Public Address: Sexualities in American Historical Discourse (Studies in Rhetoric/communication) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570036640 ISBN 13: 9781570036644

Publisher: 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles E. Morris III is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Boston College and an editor of Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest. For his scholarship on queer history, he has received the National Communication Association's Karl Wallace Memorial Award and Golden Anniversary Monograph Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1570036640
• ISBN 13: 9781570036644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298
• Editor: Morris Charles E. III