"Where Is A Story Before It Becomes Words?": Understanding Queer Composition's Place in Writing Studies Through Lynda Barry's What It Is

<p>Queer Theory has maintained an unstable place in Writing Studies because of the ever-changing political and social uses and definitions of the term “queer” in contemporary western society. In this essay, I discuss how composition scholars must reinterpret their understanding of Queer Composition from a writing genre to a writing heuristic in order to stabilize queerness in Writing Studies. I show how the Queer Composition heuristic functions within a text by using Lynda Barry’s creative and pedagogical text What It Is as an example that iterates queerness as an accessible and inclusive practice for all writers. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English and Theatre

Grantor dc:publisher

Eastern Kentucky University

Year

2019

Author dc:creator

• McClure, James Franklin

• First-Year Writing
• Lynda Barry
• Process Pedagogy
• Queer Composition
• Visual Rhetoric
• Writing Studies
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
• Rhetoric and Composition

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2019 James Franklin McClure

Repository record dc:identifier

https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/596

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1594