Queer Silence – On Disability and Rhetorical Absence Smilges Hardback

Queer SilenceOn Disability and Rhetorical Absence\nAuthor(s): J. Logan Smilges\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517914080, 978-1517914080\nSynopsis\nChampioning the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness\n\nIn queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence insists, however, that silence can be a generative and empowering mode of survival. Triangulating insights from queer studies, disability studies, and rhetorical studies, J. Logan Smilges explores what silence can mean for people whose bodyminds signify more powerfully than their words.\n\nQueer Silence begins by historicizing silences negative reputation, beginning with the ways homophile activists rejected medical models pathologizing homosexuality as a disability, resulting in the silencing of disability itself. This silencing was r.