Originally published: Confronting Appalachian stereotypes. Lexington:
University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- The
grass roots speak back / Stephen L. Fisher -- Miners talk back: labor
activism in southeastern Kentucky in 1922 / Alan Banks -- Coalfield
women making history / Sally Ward Maggard -- Paving the way: urban
organizations and the image of Appalachians / Phillip J. Obermiller
-- Stories of AIDS in Appalachia / Mary K. Anglin -- America needs
hillbillies: the case of The Kentucky cycle / Finlay Donesky -- The
view from the castle: reflections on The Kentucky cycle phenomenon /
Rodger Cunningham -- Regional consciousness and political
imagination: the Appalachian connection in an anxious nation /
Herbert Reid -- Notes on The Kentucky cycle / Gurney Norman.
Language: eng
Physical Description: xi, 350 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition Info: (paper : alk. paper)
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