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Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival: Affects, Matterings, and Literacies Across Appalachia

Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival: Affects, Matterings, and Literacies Across Appalachia

Pendygraft, Caleb

Hardcover

Series: Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices

Biographies GeneralGeneral ReferenceGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1985902419
ISBN13: 9781985902411
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.87 Depth: 8.57
Language: English

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.

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