"Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You": Self-Disclosure and Lesbian and Gay Identity in the ESL W...

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Beteiligte: Cummings, Martha Clark
In: Journal of Basic Writing, 28, 2009, 1, S. 71-89
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City University of New York
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Umfang: 71-89
ISSN: 0147-1635
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Basic Writing
Sprache: Englisch
Kollektion: sid-55-col-jstoras14
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<p>A lesbian teacher, recently returned from four years in Japan and teaching an intermediate ESL class in a public community college in New York City, struggles with addressing the issue of her own sexual orientation while using a novel with a protagonist who is questioning his sexual identity. The evolution of gay/lesbian and/or queer theory mirrors the progress of the writer's life as she confronts her own internalized homophobia and the heteronormativity of her culture.</p>