Y'all Means All (eBook, PDF)

The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia
Redaktion: McNeill, Z. Zane

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Y'all Means All is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory! This collection is a thought-provoking hoot and a holler of "we're queer and we're here to stay, cause we're every bit a piece of the landscape as the rocks and the trees" echoing through the hills of Appalachia and into the boardrooms of every media outlet and opportunistic author seeking to define Appalachia from the outside for their own political agendas. Multidisciplinary and multi-genre, Y'all necessarily incorporates elements of critical theory, such as critical race theory and queer theory, while dealing with a multitude of methodologies, from quantitative analysis, to oral history and autoethnography.

This collection eschews the contemporary trend of "reactive" or "responsive" writing in the genre of Appalachian studies, and alternatively, provides examples of how modern Appalachians are defining themselves on their own terms. As such, it also serves as a toolkit for other Appalachian readers to follow suit, and similarly challenge the labels, stereotypes and definitions often thrust upon them. While providing blunt commentary on the region's past and present, the book's soul is sustained by the resilience, ingenuity, and spirit exhibited by the authors; values which have historically characterized the Appalachian region and are continuing to define its culture to the present.

This book demonstrates above all else that Appalachia and its people are filled with a vitality and passion for their region which will slowly but surely effect long-lasting and positive changes in the region. If historically Appalachia has been treated as a "mirror" of the country, this book breaks that trend by allowing modern Appalachians to examine their own reflections and to share their insights in an honest, unfiltered manner with the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781629639253
• Artikelnr.: 61429234

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Finding Self and Discovering Queer in Appalachia
1.1. Trans Appalachian: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
1.2. Queer in the Holler: Appalachian Image-Making
1.3. Different Creatures
1.4. For Black Appalachians, Southerners, and Rural Folks
1.5. All Them That Don’t Call Me They
1.6. How I Got My Name
Chapter 2. Queer Hills, Hollers and Mountain People
2.1. Your Own Country: Finding Queer History in Johnson City, Tennessee
2.2. Home Grown: Critical Queer Activism in Appalachia and the South
2.3. Rainbow Aging: Negotiating Queer Identities Among Aging Central
Appalachians
2.4. An Appalachian Crip/Queer Environmental Engagement
2.5. Performing the Queer Corpo-Rural in Plant Time
2.6. Treesit Blockades and Queer Liberation Chapter
3. Creating the Queer Appalachian Archive
3.1. Myths and Electricity: The Queer Appalachia Project and Unconventional
Queer Archives
3.2. Lessons for the Long Term: One Story of the Queer Appalachia Platform
3.3. The “Wyrd” and Wonderful Queerness of Appalachian Oral History in
Theory and Practice
3.4. The Man, the Moth, the Legend: The Role and Function of Folklore in
Queer Appalachian Social Media Communities
3.5. Crafting Queer Histories of Technology