Given Ground

Name: Given Ground
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ISBN: 9781584657460

ISBN-10: 1584657464

ISBN-13: 9781584657460

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ann Pancake, Ann Pancake

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Departing from Appalachia's 150-year-old literary legacy of formula and caricature, West Virginia native Ann Pancake uses the texture of language, an intense attention to place, and complexity of characterization to recreate the region -- its tragic history and fragile culture, the interior landscapes of its people, and their deep rootedness in a threatened land. Her characters, already marginalized economically and socially, confront what many perceive as an invading outside culture, enduring and at times transcending the loss of their "place," both literally and figuratively. Their stories undermine the assumption that just because people don't articulate what happens inside them, nothing…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 8/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English