Analyzing Talk in a Long-Term Literature Discussion Group: Ways of Operating Within LGBT-Inclusive and Queer Discourses
Analyzing Talk in a Long-Term Literature Discussion Group: Ways of Operating Within LGBT-Inclusive and Queer Discourses
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DOI：
10.1598/rrq.46.3.2
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发表时间：
2011-07-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Clark, Caroline T.
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作者：
Blackburn, Mollie V.;Clark, Caroline T.
学者们主张与青少年一起阅读和讨论包含女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者和/或质疑 (LGBTQ) 人物及相关主题的儿童和青少年文学。然而，我们对如何在 LGBTQ 人群及其盟友中做到这一点知之甚少。这项研究使用了 LGBTQ 青年中心 3 年来的 24 篇文本，检查了由 32 名青少年和成人（包括作者）组成的文学讨论小组的 18 份谈话记录。目标是确定谈话的性质以及它是解放性和/或压迫性的方式。我们对演讲进行了福柯式分析，并结合人种学收集的信息，确定了话语、用途和运作方式，以揭示 LGBT 包容性和酷儿话语的可能性和局限性。研究结果表明，文本、谈话和语境之间存在着一个复杂的、相互的过程，其中没有任何话语是单一的解放性或压迫性的。然而，围绕不同文本和复杂背景的相互对话中的互补和竞争话语提供了冲突的机会和变革的潜力。
Scholars have argued for reading and discussing children's and young adult literature containing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or questioning (LGBTQ) characters and related themes with youths. Yet, we know very little about how to do this among LGBTQ people and their allies. This study examined 18 transcripts of talk from a literature discussion group of 32 adolescents and adults, including the authors, using 24 texts over 3 years in an LGBTQ youth center. The goal was to identify the nature of the talk and the ways it was liberatory and/or oppressive. A Foucaultian analysis of the talk, combined with ethnographically collected information, was conducted, identifying discourses, uses, and ways of operating to reveal possibilities and limitations of LGBT-inclusive and queering discourses. Findings suggest a complex, reciprocal process among texts, talk, and context in which no discourse is monolithically liberatory or oppressive. Complementary and competing discourses in conversation with each other around diverse texts and in complex contexts, however, provide opportunities for conflicts and potential for change.