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Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other (Paperback)

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By Hillery Glasby (Editor), Sherrie Gradin (Editor), Rachael Ryerson (Editor)
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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.

About the Author


Hillery Glasby is an assistant professor in the writing, rhetoric, and American cultures department and a faculty fellow for the Center for Gender in Global Context at Michigan State University.
 
Sherrie Gradin is a professor of English at Ohio University.
 
Rachael Ryerson is the director of composition and a lecturer at Ohio University.
 

Praise For…


Storytelling in Queer Appalachia offers us a beautifully disruptive way to rethink our understandings of a singular Appalachia—as a place, as a people, as an ideology. These insightful chapters approach queerness-in-place through a host of engaging lenses and frameworks.”
—William P. Banks, coeditor of Approaches to Teaching LGBT Literature
 

Product Details
ISBN: 9781949199482
ISBN-10: 1949199487
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Publication Date: May 11th, 2020
Pages: 228
Language: English

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