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PublisherNew York University Press

ISBN-100814737196

ISBN-139780814737194

eBay Product ID (ePID)80459611

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameAnother Country : Queer Anti-Urbanism

LanguageEnglish

SubjectLgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Sociology / Rural, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies

Publication Year2010

TypeTextbook

AuthorScott Herring

Subject AreaSocial Science

SeriesSexual Cultures Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2009-049618

Reviews"Writers, artists, and activists have worked throughout the past century to imagine and materialize sustainable queer lives everywhere from Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Iowa to Alabama. Herring provides the definitive account of the myriad ways that LGBT people have constituted non-urban sites as vibrant and sexy spaces of resistance to hetero- and homonormativity, to compulsory consumerism, and to entrenched hierarchies of race, class, gender, and ability. In so doing,Another Countryredraws the map of contemporary queer studies." - Robert McRuer, author ofCrip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, "Scott Herring presents an exquisitely detailed road atlas of the complicated intersection between topography and destiny." Alison Bechdel, author ofFun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For "Reading across the genres of literature, print and visual media, photography, and fashion, Scott Herring not only complicates the queer's move from rural to urban space, but also the ways in which queers in 'othered' spaces enact an anti-urbanism through their own 'rural stylistics'.Another Countryis fierce!" E. Patrick Johnson, author ofSweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South - An Oral History, "InAnother Country, Herring responds to gaps that urban-centered studies have left opened in queer histories . . . Herring's work evidences a fierce commitment to existing queer metropolitan-migration narratives, favoring the backward, rustic and unfashionable, and embracing these stereotypes for their own subversively disruptive potentials. His quality content analysis and skillful ability to anticipate counter-arguments and avoid intellectual pitfalls keeps the reader on her toes." -Jaime Cantrell,Feminist Formations, Scott Herring presents an exquisitely detailed road atlas of the complicated intersection between topography and destiny., "Scott Herring presents an exquisitely detailed road atlas of the complicated intersection between topography and destiny." -Alison Bechdel,author of Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For, "In Another Country, Herring responds to gaps that urban-centered studies have left opened in queer histories . . . Herring's work evidences a fierce commitment to existing queer metropolitan-migration narratives, favoring the backward, rustic and unfashionable, and embracing these stereotypes for their own subversively disruptive potentials. His quality content analysis and skillful ability to anticipate counter-arguments and avoid intellectual pitfalls keeps the reader on her toes." -Jaime Cantrell, Feminist Formations, In Another Country, Herring responds to gaps that urban-centered studies have left opened in queer histories . . . Herring's work evidences a fierce commitment to existing queer metropolitan-migration narratives, favoring the backward, rustic and unfashionable, and embracing these stereotypes for their own subversively disruptive potentials. His quality content analysis and skillful ability to anticipate counter-arguments and avoid intellectual pitfalls keeps the reader on her toes., "Herring has a distinctive voice, elegant with a sharp wit...a book that is as beautiful as it is brilliant." - The Journal of American History, "Reading across the genres of literature, print and visual media, photography, and fashion, Scott Herring not only complicates the queer's move from rural to urban space, but also the ways in which queers in 'othered' spaces enact an anti-urbanism through their own 'rural stylistics.' Another Country is fierce!" -E. Patrick Johnson,author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South-An Oral History, "Reading across the genres of literature, print and visual media, photography, and fashion, Scott Herring not only complicates the queer's move from rural to urban space, but also the ways in which queers in 'othered' spaces enact an anti-urbanism through their own 'rural stylistics.'Another Countryis fierce!" - E. Patrick Johnson, author ofSweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South-An Oral History, "Herring has a distinctive voice, elegant with a sharp wit...a book that is as beautiful as it is brilliant." - The Journal of American History ,, Smart and edgy...the value of this book lies principally in the provocative conceptual tools it offers to articulate the roadblocks and raptures of queer migrations., Reading across the genres of literature, print and visual media, photography, and fashion, Scott Herring not only complicates the queers move from rural to urban space, but also the ways in which queers in & othered spaces enact an anti-urbanism through their own & rural stylistics. Another Country is fierce!, "Reading across the genres of literature, print and visual media, photography, and fashion, Scott Herring not only complicates the queer's move from rural to urban space, but also the ways in which queers in 'othered' spaces enact an anti-urbanism through their own 'rural stylistics.' Another Country is fierce!" - E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the SouthAn Oral History, "Scott Herring presents an exquisitely detailed road atlas of the complicated intersection between topography and destiny." - Alison Bechdel, author ofFun HomeandDykes to Watch Out For, "In Another Country, Herring responds to gaps that urban-centered studies have left opened in queer histories . . . Herring's work evidences a fierce commitment to existing queer metropolitan-migration narratives, favoring the backward, rustic and unfashionable, and embracing these stereotypes for their own subversively disruptive potentials. His quality content analysis and skillful ability to anticipate counter-arguments and avoid intellectual pitfalls keeps the reader on her toes." -Jaime Cantrell,Feminist Formations, "Smart and edgy...the value of this book lies principally in the provocative conceptual tools it offers to articulate the roadblocks and raptures of queer migrations."-Amin Ghaziani, American Journal of Sociology, "Scott Herring presents an exquisitely detailed road atlas of the complicated intersection between topography and destiny." Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For "Reading across the genres of literature, print and visual media, photography, and fashion, Scott Herring not only complicates the queer's move from rural to urban space, but also the ways in which queers in 'othered' spaces enact an anti-urbanism through their own 'rural stylistics'. Another Country is fierce!" E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South - An Oral History, Writers, artists, and activists have worked throughout the past century to imagine and materialize sustainable queer lives everywhere from Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Iowa to Alabama. Herring provides the definitive account of the myriad ways that LGBT people have constituted non-urban sites as vibrant and sexy spaces of resistance to hetero- and homonormativity, to compulsory consumerism, and to entrenched hierarchies of race, class, gender, and ability. In so doing, Another Country redraws the map of contemporary queer studies., "Scott Herring presents an exquisitely detailed road atlas of the complicated intersection between topography and destiny." - Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For, Reading across the genres of literature, print and visual media, photography, and fashion, Scott Herring not only complicates the queer's move from rural to urban space, but also the ways in which queers in 'othered' spaces enact an anti-urbanism through their own 'rural stylistics.' Another Country is fierce!, "Writers, artists, and activists have worked throughout the past century to imagine and materialize sustainable queer lives everywhere from Oregon to Pennsylvania, from Iowa to Alabama. Herring provides the definitive account of the myriad ways that LGBT people have constituted non-urban sites as vibrant and sexy spaces of resistance to hetero- and homonormativity, to compulsory consumerism, and to entrenched hierarchies of race, class, gender, and ability. In so doing, Another Country redraws the map of contemporary queer studies." -Robert McRuer,author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, Herring has a distinctive voice, elegant with a sharp wit...a book that is as beautiful as it is brilliant., "This volume is invaluable and provides essential source as wake-up call for both professionals and general audiences to recognize that American literature is multilingual throughout its history and, if present demographic trends continue, will rapidly become more multicultural." - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, "Reading across the genres of literature, print and visual media, photography, and fashion, Scott Herring not only complicates the queer's move from rural to urban space, but also the ways in which queers in 'othered' spaces enact an anti-urbanism through their own 'rural stylistics.' Another Country is fierce!" -E. Patrick Johnson,author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South;An Oral History

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume Number21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306.76/620973091734

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: I Hate New York Urban Legends From Non-Metro to Anti-Urbanism City Subversions, Rural Stylistics, Paper Cut Politics Outsider Artifacts1. Autobiographies of the Ex-Urban Queer Modernist MetronormativityGone-to-KansasStill Life with Charles DemuthBerlin StoryRaw Deals2. Critical Rusticity An Aesthetic of Anti-UrbanityBicoastalityCountry WomenOut of the Closets, Into the WoodsRFD Country3. Southern Backwardness Your Best BubbaAlabama SouvenirsEastaboga/TaorminaCaravaggio's Rednecks4. Unfashionability Steel Boots of LeatherStyle-less"Enemy Clothing"Outdated5. Queer Infrastructure Pittsburgh to the East, Philadelphia to the WestRoads to NowhereIf OnlyAlt-Routes Coda: On the Borderlands of the Midwest Notes Index About the Author A color insert follows page

SynopsisAsking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, this title draws a different map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplines - art, media, literature, performance, and fashion studies - it develops a critique of how metronormativity saturates LGBTQ politics, artwork, and criticism., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberHQ76.3.U5H468 2010