Another Appalachia
Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
Morgantown, [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press, 2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 165 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
"Examines both the roots and the resonance of Neema Avashia's identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, and gun culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Directions to a vanishing place -- Chemical bonds -- Nine forms of the Goddess -- Be like Wilt -- The blue-red divide -- City mouse/country mouse -- Finding the holy in an unholy coconut -- Wine-warmth -- Magic dust -- A Hindu hillbilly elegy -- Neighbors -- The Hindu hillbilly spice company -- Shame-shame -- Our armor -- A history of guns -- Present-life hair -- Only-generation Appalachian -- Thanks, y'all.
Subjects:
Avashia, Neema.
East Indian American women -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County -- Biography.
East Indian American lesbians -- Biography.
Gujarati Americans -- Biography.
Kanawha County (W. Va.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes.
Cross Lanes (W. Va.) -- Biography.
Avashia, Neema.
East Indian American women -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County -- Biography.
East Indian American lesbians -- Biography.
Gujarati Americans -- Biography.
Kanawha County (W. Va.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes.
Cross Lanes (W. Va.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781952271427
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Avashia, Neema | Southeast | Biography | In |