Queerly Remembered: Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ by Thomas R. Dunn
By Thomas R. Dunn
More commonly this quantity addresses the demanding situations and possibilities posed by way of embracing old representations of GLBTQ members and groups as a political approach. rather for a various group whose previous is marked through the traumas of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the forgetting and destruction of GLBTQ historical past, and the sometimes-divisive representational politics of fluid, intersectional identities, portraying a shared prior is an workout fraught with clash regardless of its strength rewards. still, via investigating wealthy rhetorical case reviews via time and throughout various artifacts—including monuments, memorials, statues, media courses, gravestones, and textbooks—Queerly Remembered finds that our present queer “turn towards reminiscence” is a fancy, enduring, and avowedly wealthy rhetorical undertaking.
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