Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avas

Description: Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Commands your attention from the first page to the last word." —Morgan JerkinsWhen Neema Avashia tells people where shes from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world today: how she loves, how she teaches, how she advocates, how she struggles.Another Appalachia examines both the roots and the resonance of Avashias identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman, while encouraging readers to envision more complex versions of both Appalachia and the nation as a whole. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions. Back Cover When Neema Avashia tells people where shes from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world today: how she loves, how she teaches, how she advocates, how she struggles. Another Appalachia examines both the roots and the resonance of Avashias identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman, while encouraging readers to envision more complex versions of both Appalachia and the nation as a whole. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, gun culture, and more, Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor, sadness and sweetness, personal reflection and universal questions. Author Biography Neema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia to parents who immigrated to the United States. She has been a middle school teacher in the Boston Public Schools since 2003. Her essays have appeared in the Bitter Southerner, Catapult, Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. Table of Contents Directions to a Vanishing PlaceChemical BondsNine Forms of the GoddessBe Like WiltThe Blue-Red DivideCity Mouse/Country MouseFinding the Holy in an Unholy CoconutWine-WarmthMagic DustA Hindu Hillbilly ElegyNeighborsThe Hindu Hillbilly Spice CompanyShame-ShameOur ArmorA History of GunsPresent-Life HairOnly-Generation AppalachianThanks, Yall Review "This book lives beautifully in the gray area of trying to navigate a divisive environment while growing up queer and Asian American."Forbes "Im glad this memoir exists . . . and Im especially glad its so good." Vauhini Vara, New York Magazine "A graceful exploration of identity, community, and contradictions." Scalawag "A timely collection that begins to fill the gap in literature focused mainly on the white male experience." Ms. Magazine "Evocative and thought-provoking." Bitch Media "Compelling and refreshing. . . . Appalachia needs more people like Neema Avashia." Daily Yonder "Readers may be Indian, Appalachian, and queer or they may be some or none of these things. No matter--Avashias beautifully rendered prose contains insights to which everyone can relate." Still: The Journal "This book gave me such tenderness toward a place that parsing my thoughts about it was like scooping up tadpoles with my bare hands." Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism "Another Appalachia is a breath of fresh air, a work that the public is in dire need of reading. Wide and expansive as the land the author calls home, this essay collection subverts the mainstreams hyperfocus on white male-dominated narratives from rural America and commands your attention from the first page to the last word." Morgan Jerkins, author of This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America and Caul Baby "Neema Avashia, in this book, has named the unnamed, spoken the unspoken so that it does not become--to paraphrase Adrienne Rich--the unspeakable, and she has done so in language that is both lyrical and direct, both entertaining and edifying, both challenging and generous. I love this book and believe it introduces an important voice in Americas ongoing racial reckoning." Rahul Mehta, author of No Other World "An essential text to add to the new canon of Appalachian writing--a compassionate and rigorous memoir of the authors experience growing up as a queer Hindu child and teenager in a small community of West Virginian Indians. Another Appalachia is a bright and deeply empathetic portrait of a complicated place, a place that Neema Avashia allows to be multifaceted in the way it deserves." Anna Claire Weber, White Whale Bookstore Review Quote "Neema Avashia, in this book, has named the unnamed, spoken the unspoken so that it does not become--to paraphrase Adrienne Rich--the unspeakable, and she has done so in language that is both lyrical and direct, both entertaining and edifying, both challenging and generous. I love this book and believe it introduces an important voice in Americas ongoing racial reckoning." Rahul Mehta, author of No Other World Details ISBN1952271428 Author Neema Avashia Short Title Another Appalachia Publisher West Virginia University Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1952271428 ISBN-13 9781952271427 Format Paperback Imprint West Virginia University Press Country of Publication United States Pages 171 Illustrations 3 b/w images Subtitle Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place Place of Publication Morganstown AU Release Date 2022-03-01 NZ Release Date 2022-03-01 UK Release Date 2022-03-01 Publication Date 2022-03-30 DEWEY 975.437 Audience General US Release Date 2022-03-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134083318;

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