Teacher Education Faculty Publications

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

12-2-2015

Publication Source

Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public, and Working Lives

Abstract

Drawing upon perspectives of New Literacy Studies, characterization and gender performativity, this interpretive case study used Multimodal Inter(Action) Analysis and ethnographic methods to examine how a queer youth, Michael, embodied the fop character type as he acted in a youth theatre troupe. The study examines Michael’s embodiment of the fop as a composition process in drama that evoked discourses of queer masculinity and the performativity of selves becoming. Embodied composing of characterizations in the troupe, and specifically the fop, were multimodal designs that intertwined with Michael’s self-cultivation and self-efficacy as a queer youth.

Inclusive pages

118-133

ISBN/ISSN

9781138951204

Document Version

Postprint

Comments

This is an accepted manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public, and Working Lives on December 2nd, 2015, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138086135.

Permission documentation on file.

Publisher

Routledge

Place of Publication

New York, NY


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