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12020-11-24T02:20:07+00:00Maxwell Cloed8840c620fc20aeee2b1f40a1e54c0e3967fa30d11plain2020-11-24T02:20:07+00:00Maxwell Cloed8840c620fc20aeee2b1f40a1e54c0e3967fa30dQueer Appalachia, an incredibly popular Instagram account, does not appear on this reading list or in this project for a multitude of reasons described in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Washington Post article. Electric Dirt is the independent 'zine made compiled by Queer Appalachia in 2017, and reflects a vision of Appalachia which is far greater than its problematic origins. For this reason, I have chosen to include just the 'zine in the reading list.
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1media/maxwell3.jpg2020-09-18T04:49:27+00:00Queer Appalachian Reading List19Resources for further learningplain2021-05-03T18:12:50+00:00This reading list seeks to serve as a starting point for queer Appalachians looking to learn more about their region and those working in the region; non-Appalachian scholars and teachers for use as a teaching and research tool; and other non-Appalachians who have heard about the region and wish to learn more. This list is incredibly incomplete and many of the authors have multiple other noteworthy works. As I read and find more texts, I'll add them to the list. If you have any suggestions, please don't hesitate to reach out to me!
Non-Fiction Books
Colin Johnson, Just Queer Folks, Temple University Press (2013)
Elizabeth Catte, What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, Belt Publishing (2018)
E. Patrick Johnson, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, University of North Carolina Press (2011)
Hillery Glasby, Sherrie Gradin, and Rachael Ryerson, Storytelling in Queer Appalachia, WVU Press (2020)
Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place, NYU Press (2005)
John Howard, Men Like That, University of Chicago Press (1999)
Mary L. Gray, Out in the Country, NYU Press (2009)
Mary Gray, Colin Johnson, and Brian Gilley, Queering the Countryside, NYU Press (2016)
Steven Stoll, Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia, Hill and Wang (2017)
William Turner and Edward Cabell, Blacks in Appalachia, University Press of Kentucky (1985)
Z. Zane McNeill, Y'all Means All, PM Press (2021)
Fiction and Poetry
Ann Pancake, Strange as this Weather Has Been, Counterpoint Press (2007)
bell hooks, Appalachian Elegy, University Press of Kentucky (2012)
Charles Williams, Cosmic Giggles, Institute 193 (2020)
Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia, WVU Press (2019)
Jonathan Williams, An Ear in Bartram's Tree, University of North Carolina Press (1969)
Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes, Walks to the Paradise Garden, Institute 193 (2019)
Marilou Awiakta, Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom, Fulcrum (1993)
Queer Appalachia, Electric Dirt, Queer Appalachia Press (2017)
Randall Kenan, A Visitation of Spirits, Grove Press (1989)
Silas House, Southernmost, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (2018)