Queerly Remembered: Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ Past - Hardcover

by Thomas R. Dunn (Author)

Queerly Remembered investigates the ways in which gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) individuals and communities have increasingly turned to public tellings of their ostensibly shared pasts in order to advocate for political, social, and cultural change in the present. Much like nations, institutions, and other minority groups before them, GLBTQ people have found communicating their past(s) particularly as expressed through the concept of memory a rich resource for leveraging historical and contemporary opinions toward their cause. Drawing from the interdisciplinary fields of rhetorical studies, memory studies, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory, Thomas R. Dunn considers both the ephemeral tactics and monumental strategies that GLBTQ communities have used to effect their queer persuasion.

Author Biography

Thomas R. Dunn is a public address scholar, rhetorical critic, and an assistant professor of communication studies at Colorado State University. His research examines the intersection of GLBT and queer culture, politics, and rhetoric with a focus on public memory, visual rhetoric, and the rhetoric of the built environment. Dunn is the 2012 winner of the National Communication Association's Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and the 2011 winner of the National Communication Association's Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award. He resides in Fort Collins, Colorado.