Research Catalog

Title

Textual orientations : lesbian and gay students and the making of discourse communities / Harriet Malinowitz.

Author

Malinowitz, Harriet.

Publication

Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers : Heinemann, c1995.

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Description

xviii, 294 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Textual Orientations examines two emerging, mutually illuminating fields: rhetoric and composition and lesbian and gay studies. It is a thorough, fascinating study of the complex rhetorical features in operation for lesbian and gay students in college writing classes." "The research from which the book evolves centers on an unusual situation: lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual writers together in a class for which lesbian and gay experience is the theme. What happens in such a circumstance? What kind of discourse community is formed? What kinds of new work does it enable? The book illustrates that in an academic environment that is "queercentric," the complexities of lesbian and gay subjectivity can be drawn upon to frame the very acts of composing from which they are usually erased." "Using social construction theory, liberatory pedagogy, feminism, ethnography, and queer theory as frameworks for analysis, the author proposes a pedagogy that uses the vantage point of the social margin - a place that produces not only abject outsiderhood but also acute ways of self-defining, knowing, and acting."--Jacket.

Subject

• English language > Social aspects > United States
• Gay college students > United States > Social conditions
• Lesbian students > United States > Social conditions
• English language > Discourse analysis
• Lesbians > United States > Language
• Gays > United States > Language
• Group identity
• Report writing > Social aspects > United States
• Lesbian college students > United States > Social conditions
• Rhetoric and psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-283) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Queer Texts, Queer Contexts -- Ch. 2. "Truth" or Consequences: The Lesbian or Gay Student in the Mainstream Writing Class -- Ch. 3. Lesbian and Gay Studies: Landscape of an (Inter)Discipline -- Ch. 4. Community Knowledge and Social Construction Theory in Composition -- Ch. 5. The Politics of Outsiderhood Go to School: Liberatory Pedagogy -- Ch. 6. Construing and Constructing Knowledge as a Lesbian or Gay Student Writer: Reflections on an Identity-Based Course -- Ch. 7. The Course of Study/Study of the Course -- Ch. 8. Adrian O'Connor: "It's a Social World" -- Ch. 9. Isabel Serrano: "Setting the Record Straight" -- Ch. 10. John Lee: Writing Fractured Identity -- Ch. 11. Mary Donoghue: "Let's Assume These Things Are True" -- Ch. 12. Queering the Brew.

ISBN

0867093536 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^94036734^

OCLC

• 31166827
• SCSB-12538729

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library