Doubly Erased

Allison E. Carey is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Marshall University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Elders of LGBTQ Appalachian Literature2. The Conversation Begins: Landmark Texts and Trailblazing Authors3. Visibility and Seeing: Photography in LGBTQ Appalachian Literature4. Silences and Storytelling in LGBTQ Appalachian Literature5. HomePlaceBody: The Pleasures and Perils of the Physical World6. Flight and Food: Transcending Life and Death in LGBTQ Appalachian LiteratureConclusionAppendix: doris davenport VideosNotesBibliographyIndex

"[Carey] offers a scholarly but accessible analysis of a relatively unexplored subject, and one might very well expect this book to encourage the development of an emergent specialization within literary and queer studies." — CHOICE"Doubly Erased contributes significantly to Appalachian literary scholarship by providing close, well-framed analyses of LGBTQ authors' works. Carey clearly articulates the complexity of the region and its inhabitants, eschewing essentialization of the people and reductive caricatures. I foresee this book having a profound positive impact not only for the Appalachian LGBTQ community but also for the Appalachian community writ large, however one defines that." — Theresa L. Burriss, coeditor of Appalachia in the Classroom: Teaching the Region