Reading, writing, and queer survival [electronic resource] : affects, matterings, and literacies across Appalachia / Caleb Pendygraft.

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Reading, writing, and queer survival [electronic resource] : affects, matterings, and literacies across Appalachia / Caleb Pendygraft.

9781985902435 (electronic bk.)
1985902435 (electronic bk.)
9781985902411
1985902419
9781985902428
1985902427

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2025]

English

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HQ76.25

304.2/808660974

"What happens to reading and writing when place, emotion, and materiality are just as important as the ability to write or to engage with a text? Grounded in the field of literacy studies, Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival examines the significance of inanimate and other posthuman elements to LGBTQ+ Appalachians, establishing queer storytelling as a transformative methodology for thinking about multifaceted Appalachian identities and spaces. Readers are asked to consider narrative and literacy as forces in the world-changing, flowing, emerging from place, alive in their own way. While focusing on people and their experiences in the region, the book also illustrates the complex literacy practices that LGBTQ+ Appalachians take part in to make meaning and build connections. The resulting analysis challenges our understanding of agency, queerness, and human-centric definitions of literacy. By including the stories of queer Appalachians-both the interview participants' and his own-Caleb Pendygraft has written an essential theoretical framework. Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival is a call to imagine a new future in which literacy is animate and dynamic"-- Provided by publisher.

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