Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism

Contents

vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: I Hate New York 1 Urban Legends From Non-Metro to Anti-Urbanism City Subversions, Rural Stylistics, Paper Cut Politics Outsider Artifacts 1. Autobiographies of the Ex-Urban Queer 31 Modernist Metronormativity Gone-to-Kansas Still Life with Charles Demuth Berlin Story Raw Deals 2. Critical Rusticity 63 An Aesthetic of Anti-Urbanity Bicoastality Country Women Out of the Closets, Into the Woods RFD Country 3. Southern Backwardness 99 Your Best Bubba Alabama Souvenirs Eastaboga/Taormina Caravaggio’s Rednecks 4. Unfashionability 125 Steel Boots of Leather Style-less “Enemy Clothing” Outdated viii Contents 5. Queer Infrastructure 149 Pittsburgh to the East, Philadelphia to the West Roads to Nowhere If Only Alt-Routes Coda: On the Borderlands of the Midwest 181 Notes 185 Index 223 About the Author 237 A color insert follows page 98 ...