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Damage

Notes on a Queer Aesthetic

by Jonathan Alexander ...

A personal, critical guide to seeing queer art’s wounds and possibilitiesDamage asks how to look at images marked by queer pain without turning that pain into shock or pretending it isn’t there. Writer and critic Jonathan Alexander answers by pairing close looking with lived experience. The result is intimate and analytic at once, a book that stays with hard feelings while still making room for ... Read more

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A personal, critical guide to seeing queer art’s wounds and possibilitiesDamage asks how to look at images marked by queer pain without turning that pain into shock or pretending it isn’t there. Writer and critic Jonathan Alexander answers by pairing close looking with lived experience. The result is intimate and analytic at once, a book that stays with hard feelings while still making room for
... Read more
On Multimodality

New Media in Composition Studies

by Jonathan Alexander, Jacqueline Rhodes ...

Series series Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
Winner of the 2015 CCCC Outstanding Book AwardAs our field of composition studies invites students to compose with new media and multimedia, we need to ask about other possibilities for communication, representation, and making knowledge—including possibilities that may exceed those of the letter, the text based, the composed.In this provocative look at how composition incorporates new forms of ... Read more

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Winner of the 2015 CCCC Outstanding Book AwardAs our field of composition studies invites students to compose with new media and multimedia, we need to ask about other possibilities for communication, representation, and making knowledge—including possibilities that may exceed those of the letter, the text based, the composed.In this provocative look at how composition incorporates new forms of
... Read more
Dear Queer Self

An Experiment in Memoir

by Jonathan Alexander ...

An unvarnished accounting of one man’s struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity.In this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years—1989, 1993, and 1996—Dear Queer Self follows the author through the homophobic heights of the AIDS epidemic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Bill Clinton, and ... Read more

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An unvarnished accounting of one man’s struggle toward sexual and emotional maturity.In this unconventional memoir, Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years—1989, 1993, and 1996—Dear Queer Self follows the author through the homophobic heights of the AIDS epidemic, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of Bill Clinton, and
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Stroke Book

The Diary of a Blindspot

by Jonathan Alexander ...

An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a bodyIn the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an “eye stroke.” A small bit of cholesterol came loose from a vein in his neck and instead of shooting into his brain and causing damage, it lodged itself in a branch artery of his retina, resulting in a ... Read more

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An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a bodyIn the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an “eye stroke.” A small bit of cholesterol came loose from a vein in his neck and instead of shooting into his brain and causing damage, it lodged itself in a branch artery of his retina, resulting in a
... Read more
Liminal Spaces in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Stories from the In Between

by Jonathan Alexander, Michele D. Castleman, Paula T. Connolly, Paige D'Encarnacao, Scott Eberle, Laura Hakala, Katharine Kittredge, Terry Lindvall, Claudia Mills, Alessia Silvestrin, Anne K. Phillips, Trina Marie Rumfelt, Jan Susina, Eric L. Tribunella, Dr. Kathy Merlock Jackson ...

Scholars in the field of children's literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of “liminal spaces” around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading children's literature scholars. The contributors in this ... Read more

$93.19 USD

Scholars in the field of children's literature studies began taking an interest in the concept of “liminal spaces” around the turn of the 21st century. For the first time, Liminal Spaces in Children's and Young Adult Literature: Stories from the In Between brings together in one volume a collection of original essays on this topic by leading children's literature scholars. The contributors in this
... Read more
Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Pluralism in a Postsecular Age

by Jonathan Alexander, Patricia Bizzell, Beth Daniell, Rasha Diab, Janice W. Fernheimer, Cinthia Gannett, Andre E. Johnson, Lisa King, Beverly J. Moss, Laurent Pernot, Patricia Roberts-Miller, Kurt Spellmeyer, Elizabeth Vander Lei, Robert P. Yagelski, Lisa Zimmerelli, TJ Geiger II, John Brereton, Ph.D ...

Expanding the scope of religious rhetoricOver the past twenty-five years, the intersection of rhetoric and religion has become one of the most dynamic areas of inquiry in rhetoric and writing studies. One of few volumes to include multiple traditions in one conversation, Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century engages with religious discourses and issues that continue to shape public ... Read more

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Expanding the scope of religious rhetoricOver the past twenty-five years, the intersection of rhetoric and religion has become one of the most dynamic areas of inquiry in rhetoric and writing studies. One of few volumes to include multiple traditions in one conversation, Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century engages with religious discourses and issues that continue to shape public
... Read more
Writing and Desire

Queer Ways of Composing

by Jonathan Alexander ...

Series series Composition, Literacy, and Culture
Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central to their writing practice. In a time of political, social, global, and ecological unrest, how might we understand desire—the desire for things to be different, the desire for a better world—as a crucial dimension of contemporary human experience? What ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central to their writing practice. In a time of political, social, global, and ecological unrest, how might we understand desire—the desire for things to be different, the desire for a better world—as a crucial dimension of contemporary human experience? What
... Read more
Programming the Future

Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

by Professor Sherryl Vint, Professor Jonathan Alexander ...

From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian ... Read more

$28.49 USD

From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian
... Read more
Programming the Future

Politics, Resistance, and Utopia in Contemporary Speculative TV

by Professor Sherryl Vint, Professor Jonathan Alexander ...

From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian ... Read more

$21.99 USD

From 9/11 to COVID-19, the twenty-first century looks increasingly dystopian—and so do its television shows. Long-form science fiction narratives take one step further the fears of today: liberal democracy in crisis, growing economic precarity, the threat of terrorism, and omnipresent corporate control. At the same time, many of these shows attempt to visualize alternatives, using dystopian
... Read more
The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric

Edited by Jacqueline Rhodes, Jonathan Alexander ...

Series series Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric 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.The handbook features rhetorical scholarship that explicitly uses and extends insights from work in queer and trans theories to understand and critique intersections of ... Read more

$63.99 USD

The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric 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.The handbook features rhetorical scholarship that explicitly uses and extends insights from work in queer and trans theories to understand and critique intersections of
... Read more
Unruly Rhetorics

Protest, Persuasion, and Publics

Edited by Jonathan Alexander, Susan C. Jarratt, Nancy Welch ...

Series series Composition, Literacy, and Culture
What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation?Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly. An introduction drawing on Jacques Rancière and Judith ... Read more

$49.49 USD

What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation?Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly. An introduction drawing on Jacques Rancière and Judith
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Sexual Rhetorics

Methods, Identities, Publics

Edited by Jonathan Alexander, Jacqueline Rhodes ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
Sexual rhetoric is the self-conscious and critical engagement with discourses of sexuality that exposes both their naturalization and their queering, their torquing to create different or counter-discourses, giving voice and agency to multiple and complex sexual experiences. This volume explores the intersection of rhetoric and sexuality through the varieties of methods available in the fields of ... Read more

$68.99 USD

Sexual rhetoric is the self-conscious and critical engagement with discourses of sexuality that exposes both their naturalization and their queering, their torquing to create different or counter-discourses, giving voice and agency to multiple and complex sexual experiences. This volume explores the intersection of rhetoric and sexuality through the varieties of methods available in the fields of
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