Reading, writing, and queer survival : affects, matterings, and literacies across Appalachia / Caleb Pendygraft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pendygraft, Caleb, author.

Series:

Appalachian futures: Black, native, and queer voices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory--Appalachian Region.

Queer theory.

Literacy--Appalachian Region--Philosophy.

Literacy.

Gay and lesbian studies--Appalachian Region.

Gay and lesbian studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2025]

Summary:

"What happens to reading and writing when place, emotion, and materiality are just as important as the ability to write or to engage with a text? Grounded in the field of literacy studies, Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival examines the significance of inanimate and other posthuman elements to LGBTQ+ Appalachians, establishing queer storytelling as a transformative methodology for thinking about multifaceted Appalachian identities and spaces. Readers are asked to consider narrative and literacy as forces in the world-changing, flowing, emerging from place, alive in their own way. While focusing on people and their experiences in the region, the book also illustrates the complex literacy practices that LGBTQ+ Appalachians take part in to make meaning and build connections. The resulting analysis challenges our understanding of agency, queerness, and human-centric definitions of literacy. By including the stories of queer Appalachians-both the interview participants' and his own-Caleb Pendygraft has written an essential theoretical framework. Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival is a call to imagine a new future in which literacy is animate and dynamic"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on May 19, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781985902435

1985902435

OCLC:

1511134058

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.