ISBN:
9780814737187
,
9780814790939 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
260 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780814790939
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Sexual Cultures
DDC:
306.76/620973091734
Keywords:
Ländlicher Raum
;
Homosexueller
;
Lesbe
;
USA
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 pr...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Online-Ausg.:
