Writing InQueeries: Bodies, Queer Theory, and an Experimental Writing Class

While we think queer texts share many characteristics with certain feminist or other postmodern discourses, for the purpose of our course, we were envisioning texts that were queer as those that questioned fundamental assumptions about identity categories. Furthermore, we saw queer texts as purposef...

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Published in:Composition studies 2005-10, Vol.33 (2), p.25-44
Main Authors: DiGrazia, Jennifer, Boucher, Michel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American studies
Captions
Colleges & universities
Composition
Education
Expository Writing
Female homosexuality
Females
Gay communities
Gays & lesbians
Gender identity
Literary Genres
Pedagogy
Queer culture
Queer studies
Queer theory
Reading
Sexuality
Teachers
Teaching
Writing
Writing Instruction
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Summary:While we think queer texts share many characteristics with certain feminist or other postmodern discourses, for the purpose of our course, we were envisioning texts that were queer as those that questioned fundamental assumptions about identity categories. Furthermore, we saw queer texts as purposefully provocative, edgy, and meant to destabilize the audience's assumptions about what is "normal" about gender, sexual identity, race and/or class categories. A queer pedagogy (conceptually and strategically speaking) shifts in relation to subject matter and discipline, to whoever is attempting to use a queer pedagogy, and according to the institutional and demographic context within which the classroom is situated. The Role of Gender in College Classroom Interactions: A Social Context Approach.
ISSN:1534-9322