<p>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 <em>Storytelling in Queer Appalachia</em> 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.<br/><br/>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. <em>Storytelling in Queer Appalachia</em> affirms queer people, fights for queer visibi
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<P>This book takes up the question of Christian queer theology and ethics through the contested lens of "redemption." Starting from the root infinitive "to deem," the authors argue that queer lives and struggles can illuminate...
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Volume offering diverse perspectives and guidance for promoting social change through campus-community relationships.
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<i><b>A critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia.</b></i><p/> Environmental law has failed spectacularly to protect Appalachia from the ravages of liberal capitalism,...
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Surveying some two dozen films and the literary and historical sources from which they were adapted, John Inscoe argues that in the American imagination Appalachia has long represented far more than deprived and depraved hillbillies. Rather, the films...
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