TY - BOOK ID - 86057641 TI - Storytelling in queer Appalachia : imagining and writing the unspeakable other AU - Glasby, Hillery AU - Gradin, Sherrie L. AU - Ryerson, Rachael PY - 2020 SN - 1949199495 9781949199499 1949199479 1949199487 9781949199475 9781949199482 PB - Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sexual minorities KW - Gender minorities KW - GLBT people KW - GLBTQ people KW - Lesbigay people KW - LBG people KW - LGBT people KW - LGBTQ people KW - Non-heterosexual people KW - Non-heterosexuals KW - Sexual dissidents KW - Minorities KW - LGBTQ+ people KW - Appalachian Region. KW - Appalachia KW - Appalachian Mountains Region UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86057641 AB - 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. ER -