Alexander Menrisky
Biographic Data
| ID | 3750486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Menrisky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Menrisky |
| SIGNATURE | MENRISKY A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hicks, Homos, and Home Cooking
This essay draws on critical studies of food, race, class, and environment to consider food's role in the cultivation of queer literary and political cultures in Appalachia. Texts such as Jeff Mann's Loving Mountains, Loving Men, a collection of poetry and essays, speak to a double-bind in which queer Appalachian writers often profess to find themselves: on the one hand, dismissed as coal-loving "white trash" by urban environmentalists; on the ot…
The Reluctant Environmentalist: Finding Evidence of Injustice in James Wright's Ambivalent Writing of Place and Identity
The Reluctant EnvironmentalistFinding Evidence of Injustice in James Wright's Ambivalent Writing of Place and Identity Alexander Menrisky (bio) In the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections, Twitter users, verified and unverified alike, flocked online to shake their heads at the benighted politics of red-leaning regions and states. As one tweet put it, "Yet again, Florida proves that it prefers white supremacy to being above sea level."1 Similar…
Hallucinogenic Ecology and Psychoanalytic Prehistory in Margaret Atwood
Hicks, Homos, and Home Cooking
This essay draws on critical studies of food, race, class, and environment to consider food's role in the cultivation of queer literary and political cultures in Appalachia. Texts such as Jeff Mann's Loving Mountains, Loving Men, a collection of poetry and essays, speak to a double-bind in which queer Appalachian writers often profess to find themselves: on the one hand, dismissed as coal-loving "white trash" by urban environmentalists; on the ot…
Hallucinogenic Ecology and Psychoanalytic Prehistory in Margaret Atwood
The Reluctant Environmentalist: Finding Evidence of Injustice in James Wright's Ambivalent Writing of Place and Identity
The Reluctant EnvironmentalistFinding Evidence of Injustice in James Wright's Ambivalent Writing of Place and Identity Alexander Menrisky (bio) In the aftermath of the 2018 midterm elections, Twitter users, verified and unverified alike, flocked online to shake their heads at the benighted politics of red-leaning regions and states. As one tweet put it, "Yet again, Florida proves that it prefers white supremacy to being above sea level."1 Similar…
Hicks, Homos, and Home Cooking
This essay draws on critical studies of food, race, class, and environment to consider food's role in the cultivation of queer literary and political cultures in Appalachia. Texts such as Jeff Mann's Loving Mountains, Loving Men, a collection of poetry and essays, speak to a double-bind in which queer Appalachian writers often profess to find themselves: on the one hand, dismissed as coal-loving "white trash" by urban environmentalists; on the ot…
Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (1 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 works) · American History and Culture (1 works) · Appalachia (1 works)