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

• Autore: Grindstaff Davin Allen <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/620973
• Soggetto topico: Rhetoric - Social aspects - United States; Male homosexuality - United States; Gay men - United States - Identity
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Rhetorical Secrets
• ISBN: 0-8173-8760-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464526303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique