Queer South rising : voices of a contested place

Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place is a collection of essays about the South by people who identify as both Southern and queer. The collection's name hints at the provocative nature of its contents: placing Queer and South side-by-side challenges readers to think about each word di...

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Other Authors Whitlock, Reta Ugena, 1963- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub, 2013.
SeriesLandscapes of education.
Subjects
Gay people > Southern States.
Social Science > LGBTQ+ Studies > General.
LGBTQ+ Studies, topics.
Relating to LGBTQ+ people.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806613960
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-170-1
Physical Description1 online resource (xl, 417 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : Loving, telling, and reconstructing the south / Reta Ugena Whitlock
  • Part I. Ghosts, myths, and treasures: Theorizing south and southernness
  • Chapter 1. Some odd place of ghosts and shadows: Working through the queer character of place in randall kenan's run, mourner, run / Brian Casemore
  • Chapter 2. Drag and the politics of performance / Brock Thompson
  • Chapter 3. Examining the oppressor within: Lessons learned by a northern researcher in the south / Bettina L. Love
  • Chapter 4. Dismantling metrocentric and metronormative curricula: Toward a critical queer pedagogy of southern rural space and place / Christopher J. Stapel
  • Chapter 5. Fall down on me: Stories of the club from black gay men in the south / Craig Washington
  • Chapter 6. (homo)sex in a model new south city: Placing lesbians and gay men in mid-twentieth century atlanta / Wesley Chenault
  • Chapter 7. For queer teachers, love can be a battlefield / Janna Jackson
  • Chapter 8. I was born on the wrong planet: Flights of fancy, gone with the wind, and other gay narratives of the south / Patrick Slattery
  • Chapter 9. Negative capability in the mountain south / Jeff Mann
  • Part II. Sacrilege! Confronting southern institutions
  • Chapter 10. Drag you off to milledgeville: The georgia state hospital and southern psychiatric spaces / Mab Segrest
  • Chapter 11. The hell train: A journey from holy roller to feminist lesbian / Karen Parker
  • Chapter 12. An open letter to the bishop / Brian Ammons
  • Chapter 13. Becoming peculiar / Kate Black
  • Chapter 14. Reorienting the south: Locating queer refugees and geographies in texas / Long T. Bui
  • Chapter 15. I have the right to remain silent / Jamie Davis
  • Chapter 16. Here's a little lagniappe for you... / Michael Johnson, Jr
  • Chapter 17. Confessions of a radical feminist: Conservative control of intellectual freedom in higher education / Reta Ugena Whitlock
  • Part III. Ye mama 'nem: Contemplating webs of relations
  • Chapter 18. Dude / Laura Davis
  • Chapter 19. My labels are [not] too many: My journey of becoming a black, afrocentric, southern lesbian / Qiana Cutts
  • Chapter 20. Jesus, dolly parton, and solid gold: Risk and resilience in a southern gay childhood / Travis Wright
  • Chapter 21. The queering year / JD Dykes
  • Chapter 22. The way of holiness / Jason Howard
  • Chapter 23. Rubyfruit masochist / Merri Lisa Johnson
  • Chapter 24. Redneck sissy: Negotiating shame as a queer male in the rural south / Jay Poole
  • Chapter 25. Trailer park queer / Porscha Yount
  • Chapter 26. True south / Kevin Jennings
  • About the contributors.

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