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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464526303321

Autore

Grindstaff Davin Allen <1970->

Titolo

Rhetorical Secrets [[electronic resource] ] : Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America / / Davin Allen Grindstaff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8173-8760-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique

Disciplina

306.76/620973

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Social aspects - United States

Male homosexuality - United States

Gay men - United States - Identity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The rhetorical secret -- The essential and the ethnic -- Semen and subjectivity -- Experiencing the erotic -- Coming out as contagious discourse -- Conclusion: The conditions of speaking about homosexuality.

Sommario/riassunto

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