Dreads and open mouths : living/teaching/writing queerly / Aneil Rallin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rallin, Aneil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indian Americans--Biography.

East Indian Americans.

Authors, American--21st century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Gay authors--United States--Biography.

Gay authors.

Gay college teachers--United States--Biography.

Gay college teachers.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sacramento, California : Litwin Books, [2019]

Summary:

This timely, provocative, unruly, formally experimental/scholarly hybrid book charts an activist life of teaching/writing queerly over the past twenty years from the author's subject position as a queer immigrant scholar/teacher of color situated in the field of rhetoric and composition.

Contents:

Cover Page

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE: Eyes Wide Open

CHAPTER 1: (Im)migrant Crossings

CHAPTER 2: Taming Queer

CHAPTER 3: Queer Is Not A Substitute For Gay/Lesbian

CHAPTER 4: Dreads And Open Mouths I

CHAPTER 5: Desiring Queer Brown Boy

CHAPTER 6: Queer Unsettlings

CHAPTER 7: Dreads And Open Mouths II

CHAPTER 8: Love Letters To Adrienne Rich

CHAPTER 9: "Can I Get A Witness?": Writing With June Jordan

CHAPTER 10: Rejecting Quietism / Acting Up

CHAPTER 11: (Anti-)Climax

EPILOGUE: Three Minutes And Thirty-Three Seconds

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Author Bio

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63400-102-8