Tar hollow trans : essays / Stacy Jane Grover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grover, Stacy Jane, author.

Series:

Appalachian futures.

Appalachian Futures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity.

Trans people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2023]

Summary:

"I've lived a completely ordinary life, so much that I don't know how to write a transgender or queer or Appalachian story, because I don't feel like I've lived one. ... Though, in searching for ways to write myself in my stories, maybe I can find power in this ordinariness." Raised in southeast Ohio, Stacy Jane Grover would not describe her upbringing as "Appalachian." Appalachia existed farther afield-more rural, more country than the landscape of her hometown. Grover returned to the places of her childhood to reconcile her identity and experience with the culture and the people who had raised her. She began to reflect on her memories and discovered that group identities like Appalachian and transgender are linked by more than just the stinging brand of social otherness. In Tar Hollow Trans, Grover explores her transgender experience through common Appalachian cultural traditions. In "Dead Furrows," a death vigil and funeral leads to an investigation of Appalachian funerary rituals and their failure to help Grover cope with the grief of being denied her transness. "Homeplace" threads family interactions with farm animals and Grover's coming out journey, illuminating the disturbing parallels between the American Veterinary Association's guidelines for ethical euthanasia and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's guidelines for transgender care. Together, her essays write transgender experience into broader cultural narratives beyond transition and interrogate the failures of concepts such as memory, metaphor, heritage, and tradition. Tar Hollow Trans investigates the ways the labels of transgender and Appalachian have been created and understood and reckons with the ways the ever-becoming transgender self, like a stigmatized region, can find new spaces of growth"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Introduction

Lancaster Is Burning

A Position Which Is Nowhere

All Is Handily Arranged

Dead Furrows

They Shrink from Hard Work

Salt Rising

A Roof, and Bed, and Board

The Line Spins through Time

Homeplace

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Series.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Grover, Stacy Jane Tar Hollow Trans

ISBN:

9780813197692

0813197694