Rhetorical secrets
Subtitle: mapping gay identity and queer resistance in contemporary America
By: Davin Allen Grindstaff.
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780817315061
Subjects: Gay men -- United States -- Identity; Homosexuality, Male -- United States; Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States
Description: "In Part One of this book, Davin Allen 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. In Part Two, Grindstaff examines major issues related to contemporary conceptions of gay male identity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The rhetorical secret; title: The essential and the ethnic; title: Semen and subjectivity; title: Experiencing the erotic; title: Coming out as contagious discourse; title: Conclusion: The conditions of speaking about homosexuality.