The Queer South

The Queer South
Title The Queer South PDF eBook
Author Douglas Ray
Publisher Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre American literature
ISBN 9781937420802

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This anthology features poetry and prose that explores the queer experience in the American South.

The Lesbian South

The Lesbian South
Title The Lesbian South PDF eBook
Author Jaime Harker
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 261
Release 2018-09-25
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1469643367

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In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women's liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential from the 1970s through the 1990s, the Women in Print movement created a network of writers, publishers, bookstores, and readers that fostered a remarkable array of literature. With the freedom that the Women in Print movement inspired, southern lesbian feminists remade southernness as a site of intersectional radicalism, transgressive sexuality, and liberatory space. Including in her study well-known authors—like Dorothy Allison and Alice Walker—as well as overlooked writers, publishers, and editors, Harker reconfigures the southern literary canon and the feminist canon, challenging histories of feminism and queer studies to include the south in a formative role.

The Un-Natural State

The Un-Natural State
Title The Un-Natural State PDF eBook
Author Brock Thompson
Publisher University of Arkansas Press
Pages 266
Release 2010-10-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1557289433

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This is a study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story.

Men Like That

Men Like That
Title Men Like That PDF eBook
Author John Howard
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 438
Release 1999-12
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780226354712

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Howard's unparalleled history of "queer" life in the South shows how homosexuality flourished in the conservative institutions of small-town life, interspersing the life stories of both the ordinary and the famous. 22 halftones. 4 maps.

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Title Black. Queer. Southern. Women. PDF eBook
Author E. Patrick Johnson
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 590
Release 2018-10-22
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1469641119

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Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society. Using methods of oral history and performance ethnography, E. Patrick Johnson's work vividly enriches the historical record of racialized sexual minorities in the South and brings to light the realities of the region's thriving black lesbian communities. At once transcendent and grounded in place and time, these narratives raise important questions about queer identity formation, community building, and power relations as they are negotiated within the context of southern history. Johnson uses individual stories to reveal the embedded political and cultural ideologies of the self but also of the listener and society as a whole. These breathtakingly rich life histories show afresh how black female sexuality is and always has been an integral part of the patchwork quilt that is southern culture.

Queering the South on Screen

Queering the South on Screen
Title Queering the South on Screen PDF eBook
Author Tison Pugh
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 314
Release 2020
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0820356727

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"Within the realm of U.S. culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are Southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining "the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity" depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the South during the twentieth century. From portrayals of slavery to gothic horror films, the contributors show that queer southerners have always expressed desires for distinctiveness in the making and consumption of visual media. Read together, the introduction and twelve chapters deconstruct premeditated labels of identity such as queer and southern. In doing so, they expose the reflexive nature of these labels to construct fantasies based on southerner's self-identification based on what they were not"--

Queer South Rising

Queer South Rising
Title Queer South Rising PDF eBook
Author Reta Ugena Whitlock
Publisher IAP
Pages 459
Release 2013-03-01
Genre Education
ISBN 162396170X

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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 differently. The idea that a queer South might rise undermines the Battle Cry of “The South’s Gonna rise Again!” embedded in the collective memory of a conservative South. This rising does not refer to a kind of Enlightenment transcendence where the region achieves some sort of distinctive prominence. It suggests instead ruptures, like furrows in a plowed field where seeds are sown. The rising Whitlock envisions is akin to breaking and turning over meanings of Southern place. The title further serves to remind readers of the complexities of the place as it calls into question notions of a universal, homogenous LGBT, queer, identity. Queer South Rising is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays on the South and queerness that deliberately aims for multiple approaches to the topics. This collection is intended for a wide audience of “regular” folks. Essays explore multiple intersections of Southern place—religion, politics, sexuality, race, education—that transcend regional boundaries. This book counters conventional scholarly texts; it invites all readers interested in the South and queer themes to engage with the narratives it holds—and perhaps question their assumptions. Whitlock has sought, in collecting these essays, to seek out a diverse group of authors—across disciplines, professions, and interests—to shatter perceptions about a nostalgic, romanticized Southern culture in general.