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Becoming Utopias: Toward a Queer Rhetoric of Instantiation

Jacqueline Rhodes

Responses

To read a response essay that takes up this chapter, see Wysocki.

Works Cited

Note: My thanks a host of people who looked at very early drafts of this piece and offered insight and critique: Kristin Arola, Derek Mkhaiel, Connie Monson, and Dustin Shepherd. My thanks also to Mary P. Sheridan, Rick Wysocki, and my keynote cohort at the Watson Symposium in September 2017 for the careful overhaul.

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