{"product_id":"tar-hollow-trans-essays-hardcover","title":"Tar Hollow Trans: Essays - Hardcover","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\u003eStacy Jane Grover\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I've lived a completely ordinary life, so much that I don't know how to write a transgender or queer or Appalachian story, because I don't feel like I've lived one. ... Though, in searching for ways to write myself in my stories, maybe I can find power in this ordinariness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised in southeast Ohio, Stacy Jane Grover would not describe her upbringing as \"Appalachian.\" Appalachia existed farther afield--more rural, more country than the landscape of her hometown. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrover returned to the places of her childhood to reconcile her identity and experience with the regional culture and with the people who had raised her. She began to reflect on her memories and discovered that group identities like Appalachian and transgender are linked by more than just the stinging brand of social otherness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTar Hollow Trans\u003c\/i\u003e, Grover explores her transgender experience through common Appalachian cultural traditions. In \"Dead Furrows,\" a death vigil and funeral leads to an investigation of Appalachian funerary rituals and their failure to help Grover cope with the grief of being denied her transness. \"Homeplace\" threads family interactions with farm animals and Grover's coming out journey, illuminating the disturbing parallels between the American Veterinary Association's guidelines for ethical euthanasia and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's guidelines for transgender care. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, her essays write transgender experience into broader cultural narratives beyond transition and interrogate the failures of concepts such as memory, metaphor, heritage, and tradition. \u003ci\u003eTar Hollow Trans\u003c\/i\u003e investigates how the labels of \u003ci\u003etransgender\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAppalachian\u003c\/i\u003e have been created and understood and reckons with the ways the ever-becoming transgender self, like a stigmatized region, can find new spaces of growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eStacy Jane Grover\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and holds an MA in women's, gender, and sexuality studies. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eSalon, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, Bitch Media, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Belt Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.1 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51855938093344,"sku":"9780813197555","price":48.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/r4dqET0Aoo9780813197555.webp?v=1781544056","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/tar-hollow-trans-essays-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}