College English Jul 2017

Courting the Abject: A Taxonomy of Black Queer Rhetoric

Collin Craig

Abstract

This essay explores how Black LGBTQ students use writing to translate and transmit African American vernacular language codes in their everyday lives. Through documenting how students experience and interpret homophobia through the prism of African American vernacular English (AAVE), I demonstrate how some use language and literacy practices to critique and perform dominant gender behaviors reflected in their community. I theorize a Black queer rhetoric as a framework for understanding and nuancing the discursive limits of African American vernacular English

Journal
College English
Published
2017-07-01
DOI
10.58680/ce201729160
Open Access
Closed
Topics
gender and writing multilingual writers

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