Storytelling in queer Appalachia : imagining and writing the unspeakable other / edited by Hillery Glasby, Sherrie Gradin, and Rachael Ryerson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glasby, Hillery, editor.

Gradin, Sherrie L., editor.

Ryerson, Rachael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appalachian Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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. Focusing especially on disciplinary approaches from rhetoric and composition, the volume explores sexual identities in rural places, community and individual meaning-making among the Appalachian diaspora, the storytelling infrastructure of queer Appalachia, and the role of the metronormative in discourses of difference. Storytelling in Queer Appalachia affirms queer people, fights for queer visibility over queer erasure, seeks intersectional understanding, and imagines radically embodied queer selves through social media.

Contents:

Part I. The heart over the head: queer-affirming epistles and queerphobic challenges

A letter to Appalachia / Amanda Hayes

Challenging dominant Christianity's queerphobic rhetoric / Justin Ray Dutton

Part II. Queer diaspora: existence and erasure in Appalachia

A drowning in the foothills / Adam Denney

A pedagogy of the flesh: deconstructing the "quare" Appalachian archetype / Matthew Thomas-Reid

Pickin' and grinnin': quare hillbillies, counter rhetorics, and the recovery of home / Kim Gunter

Part III. Both/and: intersectional understandings of Appalachian queers

The crik is crooked: Appalachia as movable queer space / Lydia McDermott

"Are y'all homos?": Mêtis as method for queer Appalachia / Caleb Pendygraft and Travis A. Rountree

Queering trauma and resilience, Appalachian style! / delfin bautista

Part IV. Queer media: radical acts of embodiment and resistance

Working against the past: queering the Appalachian narrative / Tijah Bumgarner

Writing the self: trans zine making in Appalachia / Savi Ettinger, Katie Manthey, Sonny Romano, and Cynthia Suryawan

Queer Appalachia: a homespun praxis of rural resistance in Appalachian media / Gina Mamone and Sarah E. Meng.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781949199499

1949199495