{"product_id":"reading-writing-and-queer-survival-affects-matterings-and-literacies-across-appalachia-paperback","title":"Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival: Affects, Matterings, and Literacies Across Appalachia - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCaleb Pendygraft\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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, \u003ci\u003eReading, Writing, and Queer Survival\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy including the stories of queer Appalachians--both the interview participants' and his own--Caleb Pendygraft has written an essential theoretical framework. \u003ci\u003eReading, Writing, and Queer Survival\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to imagine a new future in which literacy is animate and dynamic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eCaleb Pendygraft \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of humanities at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAppalachian Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBodies of Knowledge: Embodied Rhetorics in Theory and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStorytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 8.48 x 5.66 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 10, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47895774232761,"sku":"9781985902428","price":61.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/B3ovuOjirY9781985902428.webp?v=1782841764","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/reading-writing-and-queer-survival-affects-matterings-and-literacies-across-appalachia-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}