Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance
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1. Verfasser: Rand, Erin J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
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Beschreibung:Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward the Queer Possibities of Rhetorical Agency; 1. Staking a Claim on the Queer Frontier: The Debut and Poliferation of Queer Theory; 2. An Inflammatory Fag We Love to Hate: Larry Kramer, Polemicist; 3. Visibility with a Vengeance: The Lesbian Avengers and Lesbian Chic; 4. Gay Pride, Queer Shame: The Politics of ACT UP's Affective History; Conclusion: Risking Resistance; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Reclaiming Queer is an examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a defining historical moment for both queer activism and queer theory in the United States. LGBT communities, confronted with the alarming violence and homophobia of the AIDS crisis, often responded with angry, militant forms of activism designed not merely to promote acceptance or tolerance, but to forge identity and strength from victimization and assert loudly and forcefully their rig
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9780817387518

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