Queer Literacies: Discourses and Discontents
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Queer Literacies: Discourses and Discontents

Queer Literacies: Discourses and Discontents

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Mark McBeth (Author)  

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In a documentarian investigation of the major LGBTQ archives in the United States, Queer Literacies: Discourses and Discontents identifies the homophobic discourses that prevailed in the twentieth-century by those discursive forces that also sponsored the literacy acquisition of the nation. Mark McBeth tracks down the evidence of how these sponsors of literacy-families, teachers, librarians, doctors, scientists, and government agents-instituted heteronormative platforms upon which public discourses were constructed. After pinpointing and analyzing how this disparaging rhetoric emerged, McBeth examines how certain LGBTQ advocates took counter-literacy measures to upend and replace those discourses with more Queer-affirming articulations. Having lived contemporaneously while these events occurred, McBeth incorporate narratives of his own lived experience of how these discourses impacted his own reading, writing, and researching capabilities. In this auto-archival research investigation, McBeth argues that throughout the twentieth century, Queer literates revised dominant and oppressive discourses as a means of survival and world-making in their own words. Scholars of rhetoric, gender studies, LGBTQ studies, literary studies, and communication studies will find this book particularly useful. Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs
Mark McBeth is associate professor of English at City University of New York.
  • Contributor: Mark McBeth
  • Imprint: Lexington Books
  • ISBN13: 9781793617811
  • Number of Pages: 280
  • Packaged Dimensions: 160x228x24mm
  • Packaged Weight: 621
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Release Date: 2019-12-02
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Mark McBeth is associate professor of English at City University of New York.

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