Title
Rhetorical secrets : mapping gay identity and queer resistance in contemporary America / Davin Allen Grindstaff ; cover photographs by Jeffrey Baker.
ISBN
9780817357818
0817357815
0817387609
9780817357818
9780817387600
Publication
Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Copyright Notice Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 194 pages) : illustrations
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Notes
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Summary
Davin Allen Grindstaff, through a series of close textual analyses examining public discourse, uncovers the rhetorical modes of persuasion surrounding the construction of gay male sexual identity. In Part One, Grindstaff establishes his notion of the ""rhetorical secret"" central to constructions of gay male identity: the practice of sexual identity as a secret, its promise of a coherent sexual self, and the perpetuation of secrecy as a product and strategy of heteronormative discourse. Grindstaff continues in Part Two to examine major issues related to contemporary.
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Added to Catalog
September 05, 2024
Series
Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Rhetorical Secret; 2. The Essential and the Ethnic; 3. Semen and Subjectivity; 4. Experiencing the Erotic; 5. Coming Out as Contagious Discourse; Conclusion: The Conditions of Speaking about Homosexuality; Notes; References; Index.