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

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Malinowitz, Harriet (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers : Heinemann, [1995]
Subjects:	English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > Social aspects > United States. Report writing > Study and teaching (Higher) > Social aspects > United States. Gay college students > United States > Social conditions. Lesbian college students > United States > Social conditions. English language > Discourse analysis. Lesbians > United States > Language. Gays > United States > Language. Rhetoric and psychology. Group identity. Groepsonderwijs. Homoseksuelen. Discourse analysis. English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > Social aspects. Gays > Language. Lesbian college students > Social conditions. Lesbians > Language. Report writing > Study and teaching (Higher) > Social aspects. United States.

Table of 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.