The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, offering a dynamic overview of the history of and scholarly research in this field.
The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, offering a dynamic overview of the history of and scholarly research in this field.
The handbook features rhetorical scholarship that explicitly uses and extends insights from work in queer and trans theories to understand and critique intersections of rhetoric, gender, class, and sexuality. More important, chapters also attend to the intersections of constructs of queerness with race, class, ability, and neurodiversity. In so doing, the book acknowledges the many debts contemporary queer theory has to work by scholars of color, feminists, and activists, inside and outside the academy. The first book of its kind, the handbook traces and documents the emergence of this subfield within rhetorical studies while also pointing the way toward new lines of inquiry, new trajectories in scholarship, and new modalities and methods of analysis, critique, intervention, and speculation.
This handbook is an invaluable resource for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students studying rhetoric, communication, cultural studies, and queer studies.
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"The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric does exactly what a handbook should do: it challenges the boundaries of the field while providing parameters, it provokes, it intervenes, and it offers something of interest for almost everyone. Smart, naughty, and cutting edge, both new and established voices come together to create a queer and trans rhetorical theory agenda that will be impossible to ignore for many years to come." - Karma R. Chávez, author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities and The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
"This handbook will be the definitive overview of the fabulous, diverse, and rigorous work in queer rhetorics for years to come. Contributors are well-attuned to the important ways in which identities and communities materialize in and through rhetoric, while simultaneouslythrough provocations, interventions, and speculations. Queer futures like the ones José Esteban Muñoz imagined when he encouraged us to cruise utopia are on full display in this indispensable volume." - Robert McRuer, author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance
"From the erotic to the fabulous, the resilient to the radical, this comprehensive collection maps the current landscapes of queer rhetorics as it also makes space for an un-imagined future. Queer rhetorics emerge here in all their varied possibilities." - Lisa A. Flores, University of Colorado Boulder
1. Introduction HISTORIES, RE-HISTORIES, ARCHIVES
2. Undoing Happiness
with Pleasure: Rhetorics of Affect in The Ladder
3. Retroactivism and the
Institutional Archive
4. Bisexual Invisibility, David Bowie, and the
Prospects of Queer Memory
5. The Ready-Made Queerness of Greco-Roman Rhetoric
6. Printing a Queer Identity: Edward Carpenter, Ioläus, and the Affirmation
of Same-Sex Desires in the Nineteenth Century
7. Re-Storying Trans* Zines
8.
An Archive of Disposability: (Trans)gender and Sexuality in South Africa
9.
Re-Historicizing the "Lacking South": Archiving Queer Memory and Sexual
Visibilities in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia Through the Invisible
Histories Project
10. The Trans Rhetorical Practice of Archive Building
METHODOLOGIES
11. Wobbly Words and Transnational Queer Slippages
12. Queer
Topoi: Writing "Like" Sedgwick
13. Methodologies Not Yet Known: The Queer
Case for Relational Research
14. Blake Brockingtons Rhetorical Afterlife:
Fugitive Black Trans* Data and Queer Kairotic Methodology
15. Histories in
(Trans)lation: Xie Jianshun and the Potential and Perils of Trans
Historiography
16. Subatomic Literacies and Queer Quantum Storytelling
17.
Between the Sheets: Gavin Arthurs Sexual Circulation
18. Queer Ecovisual
Rhetorics
19. Queering Spaces COMMUNITIES
20. "Lets Get Some Family Chosen":
Refugees, Homonationalism, and Queer Family Rhetoric
21. Queer Memes as
Rhetorical Scenes
22. Womyns Words: Rhetorical Practices of Lesbians in the
Tampa Bay Area
23. Mountain Dirt(y) Queer Rhetorics: Making Appalachian
Queerness Visible
24. Queer Rhetorics of Resistance in HIV Healthcare
25.
"People Cant Say Im a Man, They Cant Say Im a Woman": Reality Expansion
in the Kewpie Collection
26. Converging in a Room of Our Own: The Ladder,
Autostraddle, and Queer Convergence in Online Communities IDENTITIES
27.
Prescribe for Me, Doctor, for I Have Sex: Rhetorics of Empowerment, Queer
Shame, and the Confessional in PrEP Prescribing
28. Making Nothing Out of
Something: Asexuality and the Rhetorics of Silence and Absence
29. The Queer
Potential of Bisexual Rhetorics
30. Fuck (Gay) Racism: Queer Asian American
Rhetorics of Abe Kims TikTok
31. Anthos, Bottoms, and Anal Sex in Troye
Sivans "Bloom"
32. How Much Does It Take? Persuasion and the Stakes of Will
in The Transformation
33. Irreversible Damage: Trans Masculine Affectability
and the White Family
34. Disidentification (as a Survival Strategy for
Religious Trauma)
35. Resilient Closets, Addressivity, and Opening Pandoras
Box
36. Rhetoric of the Invisible (or, How Bisexual People Demand to be Seen)
PROVOCATIONS & INTERVENTIONS
37. Sexual Assaults, Queer Panics: Gemma Watts
and Reynhard Sinaga
38. Anti-Normativity Under Duress: An Intersectional
Intervention in Queer Rhetoric
39. Lettering me Queer: An Open Letter to
Gurlesque
40. Chronicity Rhetoric as Queercrip Activism
41. Rhetorical Work:
Genre Fluidity as a Queer Rhetorical Practice of Activists: a Play/Chapter in
Multiple Acts
42. On Taking the Bottoms Stance, or Not Your Typical
Submissive 43."Soft Armor" for Ugly Bodies: The Radical Visibility of
QueerCrip Fashion
44. Dear Queer Memoir Writers
45. Queer Rhetorics as
Intervention Methods: The Curious Case of Conversion Violence SPECULATIONS
46. The Fabulous Rhetorics of Queer Inhumanity: Speculating with Queer
Inhuman Figures to Restory Queerphobic Histories
47. The Queer Babadook:
Circulation of Queer Affects
48. Rhetorics of Gay Future and Queer Futurity:
Strategies of Disruption
49. (Queer) Optimism Aint (Im)Possible
50. Between
Queer and Digital: Toward an Understanding of the Rhetoric of Digital
Queerdom
51. Queering the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine: Bodies,
Embodiment, and the Future
52. Cuir-ing Queer: Speculations on Latin American
Notions of Queerness
53. Queer Hauntings, Queer Renewings
54. Pathological
Desire, Perverse Erotics, and Paraphiliac Entelechies
Jacqueline Rhodes is the Kelleher Centennial Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work on queer and feminist rhetorics has been published in journals such as College Composition & Communication, College English, Computers & Composition, enculturation, JAC, PRE/TEXT, and Rhetoric Review. Her co-authored and co-edited books have won a number of awards, including the 2014 CCCC Outstanding Book Award and the 2015 Computers & Composition Distinguished Book Award (for On Multimodality); the 2016 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship (for Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self); and the same award in 2017 for Sexual Rhetorics: Methods, Identities, Publics. Her award-winning documentary feature Once a Fury (Morrigan House, 2020), which profiles the members of a 1970s lesbian separatist collective, is currently streaming on tellofilms.com.
Jonathan Alexander is Chancellors Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. The author, co-author, or co-editor of twenty-one books, Alexander writes frequently about queer culture and conducts research in the areas of life writing, lifespan writing, and the rhetorics of popular culture. His most recent work has been in creative nonfiction, consisting of Creep: A Life, a Theory, an Apology (finalist for a Lambda Literary Award), Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot, Bullied: The Story of an Abuse, and Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir.
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