Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy Contributor(s): Harkins, Anthony (Editor), McCarroll, Meredith (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1946684791 ISBN-13: 9781946684790 Publisher: West Virginia University Press
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Regional Studies - Social Science | Sociology - Rural - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
Dewey: 305.562 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" L (1.05 lbs) 432 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Appalachians |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2019 pg. 85 Foreword 02/26/2019 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in Appalachian Reckoning provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia's intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities. |
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