{"product_id":"all-yall-heidi-siegrist-9781469682808","title":"All Y'All: Queering Southernness in Us Fiction, 1980-2020","description":"The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region's literature, one that is strange, deviant, or \"queer.\" The peculiar, often sexually charged literary worlds of contemporary writers like Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, and Randall Kenan speak to this connection between queerness and the South. Heidi Siegrist explores the boundaries of negotiating place and sexuality by using the concept of Southernness--a purposefully fluid idea of the South that extends beyond a simple geography, eschewing familiar ideas of the Southern canon. When the connection between queerness and Southerness becomes apparent, Siegrist shows a Southern-branded queer deviance can not only change the way we think about literature but can also change Southern queer peoples' lived experiences. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSiegrist gathers a bevy of undertheorized writers, from Kenan and Troung to Dorothy Allison and even George R. R. Martin, showing that there are many \"queer Souths.\" Siegrist offers us these multiverses as a way to appreciate a place that is often unfriendly, even deadly, to queer people. But as Siegrist argues, none of these Souths, from the terrestrial to the imaginary, would be what they are without the influence and power of queer literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heidi Siegrist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 146968280X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469682808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Heidi Siegrist","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45332058472703,"sku":"9781469682808","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ac8b5b8-cb24-45af-926e-83a44b0f6594.jpg?v=1713971630","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/all-yall-heidi-siegrist-9781469682808","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}