Queer Literacies - Discourses and Discontents

Using a nationwide search of LGBTQ archives, this book tracks the homophobic discourses used by the usual sponsors of literacy learning and recovers the counter-literacy measures that Queer literates used to upend them.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Queer Literacies on the Brain

Chapter 2 Archival Tracks and Traces: Evidence of Queer Literacies

Chapter 3 Adult Supervision: Insights to Queer Silence, or Family Got Your Tongue?

Chapter 4 Teacher Teacher: Queer Literacies in K-16

Chapter 5 "Gay books? Libraries? That rang bells for me!": Reforming Literacy Platforms

Chapter 6 Psycho-Babble: Literacies as Danger and Salvation

Chapter 7 Viral Impetus: The Rhetorical-Literate Activism of ACT UP

Chapter 8 In Conclusion, Queer Literacy's Inconclusiveness

About the author

By Mark McBeth

Summary

Using a nationwide search of LGBTQ archives, this book tracks the homophobic discourses used by the usual sponsors of literacy learning and recovers the counter-literacy measures that Queer literates used to upend them.

Product details

• Authors: Mark McBeth, McBeth Mark
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781793617835
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-783-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics