Another Country : Queer Anti-Urbanism.
Title:
Another Country : Queer Anti-Urbanism.
Author:
Herring, Scott.
ISBN:
9780814790939
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Series:
Sexual Cultures
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: I Hate New York -- Urban Legends -- From Non-Metro to Anti-Urbanism -- City Subversions, Rural Stylistics, Paper Cut Politics -- Outsider Artifacts -- 1. Autobiographies of the Ex-Urban Queer -- Modernist Metronormativity -- Gone-to-Kansas -- Still Life with Charles Demuth -- Berlin Story -- Raw Deals -- 2. Critical Rusticity -- An Aesthetic of Anti-Urbanity -- Bicoastality -- Country Women -- Out of the Closets, Into the Woods -- RFD Country -- 3. Southern Backwardness -- Your Best Bubba -- Alabama Souvenirs -- Eastaboga/Taormina -- Caravaggio's Rednecks -- 4. Unfashionability -- Steel Boots of Leather -- Style-less -- "Enemy Clothing" -- Outdated -- 5. Queer Infrastructure -- Pittsburgh to the East, Philadelphia to the West -- Roads to Nowhere -- If Only -- Alt-Routes -- Coda: On the Borderlands of the Midwest -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- About the Author -- A color insert.
Abstract:
The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, Scott Herring draws a new map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplines-art, media, literature, performance, and fashion studies-he develops an extended critique of how metronormativity saturates LGBTQ politics, artwork, and criticism. To counter this ideal, he offers a vibrant theory of queer anti-urbanism that refuses to dismiss the rural as a cultural backwater. Impassioned and provocative, Another Country expands the possibilities of queer studies beyond its city limits. Herring leads his readers from faeries in the rural Midwest to photographs of white supremacists in the deep South, from Roland Barthes's obsession with Parisian fashion to a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel set in the Appalachian Mountains, and from cubist paintings in Lancaster County to lesbian separatist communes on the northern California coast. The result is an entirely original account of how queer studies can-and should-get to another country.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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