{"product_id":"miss-southeast-essays-9780810147720","title":"Miss Southeast: Essays","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Curbstone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50894996504850,"sku":"9780810147720","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_14ce016a-f799-4f43-97fa-b9fe816ce181.jpg?v=1738265635","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/miss-southeast-essays-9780810147720","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}