| Edition |
1 edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations |
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data file rda |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Project Muse, viewed on January 25, 2023). |
| Summary |
"When Neema Avashia tells people where she's 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 Avashia's 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."-- Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Avashia, Neema.
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East Indian American women -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County -- Biography.
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Kanawha County (W. Va.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes.
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East Indian American lesbians -- Biography.
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Gujarati Americans -- Biography.
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Cross Lanes (W. Va.) -- Biography.
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East Indian American lesbians. (OCoLC)fst02033424
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Gujarati Americans. (OCoLC)fst00949245
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East Indian American women. (OCoLC)fst00901039
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West Virginia -- Kanawha County.
(OCoLC)fst01212302
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West Virginia -- Cross Lanes.
(OCoLC)fst01226786
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Indian lesbians.
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Lesbian autobiographies.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
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Autobiographies.
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Anecdotes.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Avashia, Neema Another Appalachia : West Virginia University Press,c2022 9781952271427 |
| ISBN |
9781952271434 (electronic book) |
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1952271436 (electronic book) |
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