Back Talk from Appalachia Confronting Stereotypes

Name: Back Talk from Appalachia Confronting Stereotypes
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ISBN: 9780813190013

ISBN-10: 0813190010

ISBN-13: 9780813190013

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, Katherine Ledford

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 11/16/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



(Re) Introducing Appalachia: Talking Back to Stereotypes


Introduction



Beyond Isolation and Homogeneity: Diversity and the History of Appalachia




Speaking of "Hillbillies": Literary Sources of Contemporary Stereotypes


A Landscape and a People Set Apart: Narratives of Exploration and Travel in Early Appalachia



"Deadened Color and Colder Horror": Rebecca Harding Davis and the Myth of Unionist Appalachia



The Racial "Innocence" of Appalachia: William Faulkner and the Mountain South



A Judicious Combination of Incident and Psychology: John Fox Jr. and the Southern Mountaineer Motif



Where "Bloodshed Is a Pastime": Mountain Feuds and Appalachian Stereotyping



Where Did Hillbillies Come From? Tracing Sources of the Comic Hillbilly Fool in Literature




Speaking More Personally: Responses to Appalachian Stereotypes


The "R" Word: What's So Funny (and Not So Funny) about Redneck Jokes



Appalachian Images: A Personal History



Up in the Country



On Being "Country": One Affrilachian Woman's Return Home



Appalachian Stepchild



If There's One Thing You Can Tell Them, It's that You're Free




Sometimes Actions Speak Louder than Words: Activism in Appalachia


The Grass Roots Speak Back



Miners Talk Back: Labor Activism in Southeastern Kentucky in 1922



Coalfield Women Making History



Paving the Way: Urban Organizations and the Image of Appalachians



Stories of AIDS in Appalachia




Recycling Old Stereotypes: Critical Responses to The Kentucky Cycle


America Needs Hillbillies: The Case of The Kentucky Cycle



The View from the Castle: Reflections on the Kentucky Cycle Phenomenon



Regional Consciousness and Political Imagination: The Appalachian Connection in an Anxious Nation



Notes on The Kentucky Cycle



Contributors


Index