All Y'all

“All Y’all examines how fiction by Fannie Flagg, Randall Kenan, and others depicts queerness in the American South. . . . Siegrist’s nuanced analysis . . . gives literary scholars plenty to chew on.”—Publishers Weekly

“All Y'all breaks new ground in southern studies by adding to a growing literature focusing on queer themes, and by bringing new authors into regional literary conversations.”—Ancillary Review of Books

“All Y’all is an exciting and robust study of queerness in the US South and Southern literature from 1980 to the present. Siegrist shows how this body of literature refuses to adhere to any single model of Southernness or queerness and instead presents a multiplicity that both indexes and negotiates the broader complexities of this period.”—Michael P. Bibler, Louisiana State University

“This book opens up new ways to think about the intersection of queerness and Southernness without falling into the trap of essentialism or radical disavowals of the importance of tropes and contingencies. The texts the author analyzes are similarly nuanced, expanding the scope of both Southern and queer literature by including genres often excluded from literary histories and authors whose geographic locations extend beyond these boundaries.”—Jaime Harker, University of Mississippi