Storytelling in Queer Appalachia : Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other /
Storytelling in Queer Appalachia : Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other /
edited by Hillery Glasby, Sherrie Gradin, and Rachael Ryerson.
- First edition.
- Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part I. The heart over the head: queer-affirming epistles and queerphobic challenges -- A letter to Appalachia / Challenging dominant Christianity's queerphobic rhetoric / Part II. Queer diaspora: existence and erasure in Appalachia -- A drowning in the foothills / A pedagogy of the flesh: deconstructing the "quare" Appalachian archetype / Pickin' and grinnin': quare hillbillies, counter rhetorics, and the recovery of home / Part III. Both/and: intersectional understandings of Appalachian queers -- The crik is crooked: Appalachia as movable queer space / "Are y'all homos?": Mêtis as method for queer Appalachia / Queering trauma and resilience, Appalachian style! / Part IV. Queer media: radical acts of embodiment and resistance -- Working against the past: queering the Appalachian narrative / Writing the self: trans zine making in Appalachia / Queer Appalachia: a homespun praxis of rural resistance in Appalachian media / Amanda Hayes -- Justin Ray Dutton -- Adam Denney -- Matthew Thomas-Reid -- Kim Gunter -- Lydia McDermott -- Caleb Pendygraft and Travis A. Rountree -- delfin bautista -- Tijah Bumgarner -- Savi Ettinger, Katie Manthey, Sonny Romano, and Cynthia Suryawan -- Gina Mamone and Sarah E. Meng.
"In one of the first collections of scholarship at the intersection of LGBTQ studies and Appalachian studies, voices from the region's valleys, hollers, mountains, and campuses blend personal stories with scholarly and creative examinations of living and surviving as queers in Appalachia. The essayists collected in Storytelling in Queer Appalachia are academics, social workers, riot grrrl activists, teachers, students, practitioners, scholars of divinity, and boundary crossers, all imagining how to make legible the unspeakable other of Appalachian queerness"--
9781949199499
Sexual minorities--Appalachian Region.
Electronic Books.
HQ73 / .S767 2020
Includes bibliographies and index.
Part I. The heart over the head: queer-affirming epistles and queerphobic challenges -- A letter to Appalachia / Challenging dominant Christianity's queerphobic rhetoric / Part II. Queer diaspora: existence and erasure in Appalachia -- A drowning in the foothills / A pedagogy of the flesh: deconstructing the "quare" Appalachian archetype / Pickin' and grinnin': quare hillbillies, counter rhetorics, and the recovery of home / Part III. Both/and: intersectional understandings of Appalachian queers -- The crik is crooked: Appalachia as movable queer space / "Are y'all homos?": Mêtis as method for queer Appalachia / Queering trauma and resilience, Appalachian style! / Part IV. Queer media: radical acts of embodiment and resistance -- Working against the past: queering the Appalachian narrative / Writing the self: trans zine making in Appalachia / Queer Appalachia: a homespun praxis of rural resistance in Appalachian media / Amanda Hayes -- Justin Ray Dutton -- Adam Denney -- Matthew Thomas-Reid -- Kim Gunter -- Lydia McDermott -- Caleb Pendygraft and Travis A. Rountree -- delfin bautista -- Tijah Bumgarner -- Savi Ettinger, Katie Manthey, Sonny Romano, and Cynthia Suryawan -- Gina Mamone and Sarah E. Meng.
"In one of the first collections of scholarship at the intersection of LGBTQ studies and Appalachian studies, voices from the region's valleys, hollers, mountains, and campuses blend personal stories with scholarly and creative examinations of living and surviving as queers in Appalachia. The essayists collected in Storytelling in Queer Appalachia are academics, social workers, riot grrrl activists, teachers, students, practitioners, scholars of divinity, and boundary crossers, all imagining how to make legible the unspeakable other of Appalachian queerness"--
9781949199499
Sexual minorities--Appalachian Region.
Electronic Books.
HQ73 / .S767 2020