Queer silence : on disability and rhetorical absence
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Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
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1517914094, 9781517914097, 1517914086, 9781517914080
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Published
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
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Book
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287 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
1517914094, 9781517914097, 1517914086, 9781517914080
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In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence insists, however, that silence can be a generative and empowering mode of survival. Triangulating insights from queer studies, disability studies, and rhetorical studies, J. Logan Smilges explores what silence can mean for people whose bodyminds signify more powerfully than their words. Reading a range of cultural artifacts whose relative silence has failed to attract queer attachment, from anonymous profiles on Grindr to ex-gays to belated gender transitions to disability performance art, Smilges argues for silence's critical role in serving the needs of queers who are never named as such. Queer Silence urges queer activists and queer studies scholars to reconcile with their own ableism by acknowledging the liberatory potential of silence, a mode of engagement that disattached queers use every day for resistance, sociality, and survival.--Back cover.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Smilges, J. L. (2022). Queer silence: on disability and rhetorical absence . University of Minnesota Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smilges, J. Logan. 2022. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence. University of Minnesota Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smilges, J. Logan. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Smilges, J. Logan. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
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