Romantic Correspondence as Queer Extracurriculum: The Self-Education for Racial Uplift of Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus

College Composition and Communication Dec 2017

Romantic Correspondence as Queer Extracurriculum: The Self-Education for Racial Uplift of Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus

Pamela VanHaitsma Engineering Arts (United States)

Abstract

This essay advances same-sex romantic correspondence as a pre-Stonewall site of rhetoric’s queer extra curriculum. Grounded in archival research on African American women Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus, I argue their epistolary exchange was animated by queer erotics that enabled their participation in self-education for racial uplift.

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 2017-12-01
DOI: 10.58680/ccc201729416
Open Access: Closed
Topics: archival research

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