Queer South rising
Subtitle: voices of a contested place
By: edited by Reta Ugena Whitlock
Series: Landscapes of education; Landscapes of education
Publisher: Information Age Pub
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charlotte
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781623961688; 9781623961695
Subjects: Gays
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Ghosts, myths, and treasures" : theorizing South and southernness. "Some odd place of ghosts and shadows" : working through the queer character of place in Randall Kenan's Run, mourner, run / Brian Casemore ; Drag and the politics of performance / Brock Thompson ; Examining the oppressor within : lessons learned by a northern researcher in the South / Bettina L. Love ; Dismantling metrocentric and metronormative curricula : toward a critical queer pedagogy of southern rural space and place / Christopher J. Stapel ; Fall down on me : stories of the club from black gay men in the South / Craig Washington ; A queer New South city : lesbians and gay men in mid-20th century Atlanta / Wesley Chenault ; For queer teachers, love can be a battlefield / Janna Jackson ; I was born on the wrong planet : flights of fancy, Gone with the wind, and other gay narratives of the South / Patrick Slattery ; Negative capability in the mountain South / Jeff Mann; title: Sacrilege! : confronting southern institutions. "Drag you off to Milledgeville" : the Georgia State Hospital and southern psychiatric spaces / Mab Segrest ; The hell train : a journey from holy roller to feminist lesbian / Karen Parker ; An open letter to the bishop / Brian Ammons ; Becoming peculiar / Kate Black ; Reorienting the South : locating queer refugees and geographies in Texas / Long T. Bui ; I have the right to remain silent / Jamie Davis ; Here's a little lagniappe for you / Michael Johnson, Jr. ; Confessions of a radical feminist : conservative control of intellectual freedom in higher education / Reta Ugena Whitlock; title: Ye mama 'nem : contemplating webs of relations. Dude / Laura Davis ; My labels are (not) too many : my journey of "becoming" a black, afrocentric, southern lesbian / Qiana Cutts ; Jesus, Dolly Parton, and solid gold : risk and resilience in a southern gay childhood / Travis Wright ; The queering year / JD Dykes ; The way of holiness / Jason Howard ; Rubyfruit masochist / Merri Lisa Johnson ; Redneck sissy : negotiating shame as a queer male in the rural South / Jay Poole ; Trailer park queer / Porscha Yount ; True South / Kevin Jennings.