Campbell, Peter Odell and Holding, Cory
(2015)
The Trans-Exclusive Archives of U.S. Capital Punishment Rhetoric.
In:
Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories.
Lexington Books, Lanham, MA, 199 - 216.
ISBN 1498500056
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Abstract
We offer a rhetorical distinction between certain de jure and de facto forms of U.S. capital punishment rhetoric. From this distinction, we argue for building a space conducive to critical analysis of state-institutional legal language within the field of transgender communication studies. We hold together: the absence and unrealizability of named trans life in the official language of capital punishment law and the unofficial deadly consequences of articulations of transgender life-in-prison by judicial and administrative rhetors. We view this critical combination as an opportunity to turn these archives of erasure, absence, and failure toward a productive and hopeful end. By mapping the discursive structure of cisnormative punishment institutions, trans rhetorical study can provide useful resources to the effort to abolish those very institutions.
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5 February 2015 |
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Lexington Books |
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Lanham, MA |
| Page Range: |
199 - 216 |
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No |
| ISBN: |
1498500056 |
| Title of Book: |
Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories |
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| Spencer, Leland G. | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED | | Capuzza, Jamie C. | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED |
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24 Aug 2016 14:04 |
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30 Oct 2018 13:58 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29349 |
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