{"product_id":"miss-southeast-essays-paperback","title":"Miss Southeast: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Lindsey Rogers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of narrative essays on femininity, sexuality, community, and belonging\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiss Southeast\u003c\/i\u003e explores the strange, often contradictory cultural circumstances of being queer and female in the American South and beyond. Born and raised in North Carolina, the youngest in a family of precocious daughters, Rogers spends her teenage years as a half-closeted lesbian desperate to escape the South, convinced the rest of the United States must be \"more enlightened than our cow-dotted corner of the county.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Adulthood takes Rogers to Ohio, New York, Louisiana, Arkansas, Washington, DC, and China, but each essay finds her reckoning with participation in and resistance to rigid cultural institutions--whether a coming-out story set at a high school beauty pageant or a meditation on swimming pools as emblems of racial divides across the South. In lyric prose enlivened by a poet's sense of musicality, \u003ci\u003eMiss Southeast \u003c\/i\u003econsiders how both place and our layered identities shape our sense of belonging. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIZABETH LINDSEY ROGERS\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eThe Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eChord Box\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Best American Nonrequired Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Best American Travel Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Born and raised in North Carolina, she is an assistant professor at Oberlin College and leads the Writers in the Schools program in Oberlin, Ohio. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50401895645421,"sku":"9780810147720","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/miss-southeast-essays-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}