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.
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