Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence Mint Editions Uptown: A Letter from Harlem

Uptown: A Letter from Harlem

and scenes from country life and the workplace

Young Mack only knows one way to avenge what was done to him

this novel masterfully explores identity

and crushing disappointment quickly follow

Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence Mint Editions Uptown: A Letter from HarlemChampioning the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness In 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