Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes

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

Author: Gurney Norman
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 09/28/2012
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.94w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780813190013

About the Author
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.

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