Rhetorical Secrets [electronic resource] : Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America / Davin Allen Grindstaff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grindstaff, Davin Allen, 1970-

Series:

Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States.

Rhetoric.

Male homosexuality--United States.

Male homosexuality.

Gay men--United States--Identity.

Gay men.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

Summary:

Davin Allen Grindstaff, through a series of close textual analyses examining public discourse, uncovers the rhetorical modes of persuasion surrounding the construction of gay male sexual identity. In Part One, Grindstaff establishes his notion of the ""rhetorical secret"" central to constructions of gay male identity: the practice of sexual identity as a secret, its promise of a coherent sexual self, and the perpetuation of secrecy as a product and strategy of heteronormative discourse. Grindstaff continues in Part Two to examine major issues related to contemporary

Contents:

Introduction

The rhetorical secret

The essential and the ethnic

Semen and subjectivity

Experiencing the erotic

Coming out as contagious discourse

Conclusion: The conditions of speaking about homosexuality.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-189) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8760-9

OCLC:

879576355