Back talk from Appalachia: confronting stereotypes

by Billings, Dwight B. Eller, Ronald D. Ledford, Katherine Norman, Gurney

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Various authors examine and dispute the stereotypes of Appalachia.

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Title Statements

Full title :Back talk from Appalachia : confronting stereotypes / edited by Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford ; foreword by Ronald D. Eller.

Summary

Various authors examine and dispute the stereotypes of Appalachia.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication:Lexington
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001

Notes

Originally published: Confronting Appalachian stereotypes. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 350 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0813190010, 9780813190013
oclc:ocm44548941
LC Classification:F210
Dewey Decimal:975/.009734

Introduction: Dwight B. Billings -- Beyond isolation and homogeneity: diversity and the history of Appalachia / Ronald L. Lewis -- A landscape and a people set apart: narratives of exploration and travel in early Appalachia / Katherine Ledford -- "Deadened color and colder horror": Rebecca Harding Davis and the myth of Unionist Appalachia / Kenneth W. Noe -- The racial "innocence" of Appalachia: William Faulkner and the mountain south / John C. Inscoe -- A judicious combination of incident and psychology: John Fox Jr. and the southern mountaineer motif / Darlene Wilson -- When "bloodshed is a pastime": mountain feuds and Appalachian stereotyping / Kathleen M. Blee and Dwight B. Billings -- Where did hillbillies come from? Tracing sources of the comic hillbilly fool in literature / Sandra L. Ballard -- The "r" word: what's so funny (and not so funny) about redneck jokes / Anne Shelby -- Appalachian images: a personal history / Denise Giardina -- Up in the country / Fred Hobson -- On being "country": one Affrilachian woman's return home / Crystal E. Wilkinson -- Appalachian stepchild / Stephen L. Fisher -- If there's one thing you can tell them, it's that you're free / Eula Hall -- …

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Appalaches (Sud) -- Conditions sociales Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social … Appalachians (People) -- Ethnic identity Appalachians (People) -- Social conditi… Appalachians (People) in literature Social conditions Southern Appalachian Region Stéréotypes -- États-Unis Stereotypes (Social psychology) Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Unit… United States