Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric

<p><em>The</em> <i>Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric </i>maps the ongoing becoming of queer rhetoric in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries offering a dynamic overview of the history of and scholarly research in this field.</p><p>The handbook features rhetorical scholarship that explicitly uses and extends insights from work in queer and trans theories to understand and critique intersections of rhetoric gender class and sexuality. More important chapters also attend to the intersections of constructs of queerness with race class ability and neurodiversity. In so doing the book acknowledges the many debts contemporary queer theory has to work by scholars of color feminists and activists inside and outside the academy. The first book of its kind the handbook traces and documents the emergence of this subfield within rhetorical studies while also pointing the way toward new lines of inquiry new trajectories in scholarship and new modalities and methods of analysis critique intervention and speculation.</p><p>This handbook is an invaluable resource for scholars graduate students and advanced undergraduate students studying rhetoric communication cultural studies and queer studies.</p>