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Another Appalachia : Coming up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place / Neema Avashia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avashia, Neema, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian American women--West Virginia--Kanawha County--Biography.
- East Indian American women.
- Avashia, Neema.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown, West Virginia : West Virginia University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Examines both the roots and the resonance of Neema Avashia's identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, and gun culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Directions to a vanishing place
- Chemical bonds
- Nine forms of the Goddess
- Be like Wilt
- The blue-red divide
- City mouse/country mouse
- Finding the holy in an unholy coconut
- Wine-warmth
- Magic dust
- A Hindu hillbilly elegy
- Neighbors
- The Hindu hillbilly spice company
- Shame-shame
- Our armor
- A history of guns
- Present-life hair
- Only-generation Appalachian
- Thanks, y'all.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781952271434
- 1952271436
- OCLC:
- 1285172438
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