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Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes

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Availability:In StockContributor:Dwight B. Billings (Editor), Gurney Norman (Editor), Katherine Ledford (Editor)Publish date:2000-11-16Pages:362
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813190013ISBN-10:813190010UPC:9780813190013Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:Cultural & Social, State & LocalSize:8.95 x 5.94 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCEF6KX8AY
Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle once again adopted these stereotypes, recasting the American myth as a story of repeated failure and poverty--the failure of the American spirit and the poverty of the American soul. Dismayed by national critics' lack of attention to the negative depictions of mountain people in the
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813190013ISBN-10:813190010UPC:9780813190013Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:Cultural & Social, State & LocalSize:8.95 x 5.94 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SCEF6KX8AY
Billings, Dwight B.: - Dwight B. Billings is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is a past president of the Appalachian Studies Association, a recent editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies, and the author or editor of several books.Ledford, Katherine: - Katherine Ledford is professor of Appalachian studies at Appalachian State University and coeditor of Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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Dwight B. Billings (Editor), Gurney Norman (Editor), Katherine Ledford (Editor)

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