Title
Rural Drag: Fashioning Rurality and Privilege
Publication Date
2017
Document Type
Article
Abstract
"Rural drag" is the appropriation, arrangement, and deployment of rural objects, practices, and aesthetics in order to assert membership in and support for white, settler heteropatriarchy. This rhetorical practice draws from a cultural repository of rural symbols and tropes called the "rural imaginary" to establish a rhetorical link between rural space and the privileges of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and settler colonialism.
Original Citation
Nichols, G.W. (2017). Rural Drag: Fashioning Rurality and Privilege. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 4(3) 41-66.
Virtual Commons Citation
Nichols, Garrett W. (2017). Rural Drag: Fashioning Rurality and Privilege. In English Faculty Publications. Paper 65.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/english_fac/65