{"product_id":"back-talk-from-appalachia-confronting-stereotypes-9780813190013","title":"Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes","description":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gurney Norman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.94w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813190013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBillings, Dwight B.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDwight B. Billings \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is a past president of the Appalachian Studies Association, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea recent editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Appalachian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author or editor of several books.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLedford, Katherine:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eKatherine Ledford\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of Appalachian studies at Appalachian State University and coeditor of\u003ci\u003e Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kentucky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40492896616563,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":44.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_74a5676e-9de9-450b-8a16-955d695d357d.jpg?v=1664976662","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/back-talk-from-appalachia-confronting-stereotypes-9780813190013","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}