[ecrea] new book announcement > Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance

I am excited to announce the publication of my new book, Reclaiming 
Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance, in the Rhetoric, 
Culture, and Social Critique Series of the University of Alabama Press.


In this book I consider the rhetorical linkage of academic queer theory 
with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s.  I 
examine the reclamation of the word “queer” by activists and academics, 
and grapple with the specific conditions for and constraints on 
rhetorical agency in each context. The individual chapters take up the 
early texts that inaugurated the field of queer theory, Queer Nation’s 
infamous “Queers Read This” manifesto, Larry Kramer’s polemic speeches 
and editorials, the Lesbian Avengers’ humorous and outrageous antics, 
the history of ACT UP, and the more recent appearance of Gay Shame 
activism. From these activist and academic discourses, and blending the 
insights of rhetorical studies, queer theory, and critical/cultural 
studies, I attempt to build a theory of rhetorical agency that posits 
queerness as the very condition from which agency emerges.


Reclaiming Queer thus offers a critical look at the rhetoric of queer 
activism, engages the history of queer theory’s institutionalization and 
the politics of its proliferation, suggests a radically contextual 
understanding of rhetorical agency and form, and argues for the 
centrality of queerness to all rhetorical action.


For more information: 
http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Reclaiming-Queer,5850.aspx


Best,

Erin



Erin J. Rand, Assistant Professor
Communication and Rhetorical Studies
Syracuse University


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