All Y'all (eBook)

Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980-2020

Heidi Siegrist (Autor)

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2024
234 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-8282-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its regions literature, one that is strange, deviant, or queer. The peculiar, often sexually charged literary worlds of contemporary writers like Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, and Randall Kenan speak to this connection between queerness and the South. Heidi Siegrist explores the boundaries of negotiating place and sexuality by using the concept of Southernnessa purposefully fluid idea of the South that extends beyond simple geography, eschewing familiar ideas of the Southern canon. When the connection between queerness and Southerness becomes apparent, Siegrist shows a Southern-branded queer deviance can not only change the way we think about literature but can also change Southern queer peoples lived experiences.Siegrist gathers a bevy of undertheorized writers, from Kenan and Truong to Dorothy Allison and even George R. R. Martin, showing that there are many queer Souths. Siegrist offers these multiverses as a way to appreciate a place that is often unfriendly, even deadly, to queer people. But as Siegrist argues, none of these Souths, from the terrestrial to the imaginary, would be what they are without the influence and power of queer literature.

Autor

Heidi Siegrist is director of the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.11.2024
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Alabama • antinormativity • Appetite • A Visitation of Spirits • Bitter in the Mouth • counternormativity • Desire • Deviance • Dorothy Allison • Fannie flagg • Fevre Dream • Food • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café • gay • George R.R. Martin • George Saunders • Grady Hendrix • If I Had Two Wings • Lesbian • Let the Dead Bury Their Dead • LGBTQ • Lincoln in the Bardo • Lost Souls • maroon • maroonage • Melancholy • Mississippi • Monique Truong • Monster • monstrosity • Nation • New Orleans • North Carolina • Nostalgia • Other • Otherness • Place • Poppy Z. Brite • Queer • Queer Theory • Randall Kenan • Region • South • Southern studies • Swamp • The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires • Trans • Trash • Vampire
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-8282-6 / 1469682826
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-8282-2 / 9781469682822