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9780813120997

Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes : Back-Talk from an American Region

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813120997

  • ISBN10:

    0813120993

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Summary

When The Kentucky Cycle won the Pulitzer prize for drama, a stunned Gurney Norman, already dismayed by national critics' lack of attention to the negative depictions of Appalachian people in the play, launched an attack on the stereotypical representations of mountain people. In time, Bobbie Ann Mason brought these criticisms to national prominence with an essay in the New Yorker. Mountain people remain the one minority group in America that can "safely" be made the butt of jokes. In Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes they are given the opportunity to talk back to the American mainstream. The contributors include historians, literary scholars, sociologists, creative writers, and activists who confront head-on those who would view their home region two dimensionally. The essays provide a variety of responses from people who live or were born in the region. Some examine the sources of Appalachian mythology in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. Others reveal personal experiences and examples of grassroots activism that confound and contradict accepted images of "hillbillies". The collection ends with a series of critiques aimed directly at The Kentucky Cycle and similar contemporary works that highlight the sociological, political, and cultural assumptions about Appalachia fueling today's false stereotypes.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Ronald D Eller
Acknowledgments xii
I. (Re)Introducing Appalachia: Talking Back to Stereotypes
Introduction
3(18)
Dwight B. Billings
Beyond Isolation and Homogeneity: Diversity and the History of Appalachia
21(26)
Ronald L. Lewis
II. Speaking of ``Hillbillies'': Literary Sources of Contemporary Stereotypes
A Landscape and a People Set Apart: Narratives of Exploration and Travel in Early Appalachia
47(20)
Katherine Ledford
``Deadened Color and Colder Horror'': Rebecca Harding Davis and the Myth of Unionist Appalachia
67(18)
Kenneth W. Noe
The Racial ``Innocence'' of Appalachia: William Faulkner and the Mountain South
85(13)
John C. Inscoe
A Judicious Combination of Incident and Psychology: John Fox Jr. and the Southern Mountaineer Motif
98(21)
Darlene Wilson
Where ``Bloodshed Is a Pastime'': Mountain Feuds and Appalachian Stereotyping
119(19)
Kathleen M. Blee
Dwight B. Billings
Where Did Hillbillies Come From? Tracing Sources of the Comic Hillbilly Fool in Literature
138(15)
Sandra L. Ballard
III. Speaking More Personally: Responses to Appalachian Stereotypes
The ``R'' Word: What's So Funny (and Not So Funny) about Redneck Jokes
153(8)
Anne Shelby
Appalachian Images: A Personal History
161(13)
Denise Giardina
Up in the Country
174(10)
Fred Hobson
On Being ``Country'': One Affrilachian Woman's Return Home
184(3)
Crystal E. Wilkinson
Appalachian Stepchild
187(4)
Stephen L. Fisher
If There's One Thing You Can Tell Them, It's that You're Free
191(12)
Eula Hall
IV. Sometimes Actions Speak Louder than Words: Activism in Appalachia
The Grass Roots Speak Back
203(12)
Stephen L. Fisher
Miners Talk Back: Labor Activism in Southeastern Kentucky in 1922
215(13)
Alan Banks
Coalfield Women Making History
228(23)
Sally Ward Maggard
Paving the Way: Urban Organizations and the Image of Appalachians
251(16)
Phillip J. Obermiller
Stories of AIDS in Appalachia
267(16)
Mary K. Anglin
V. Recycling Old Stereotypes: Critical Responses to The Kentucky Cycle
America Needs Hillbillies: The Case of The Kentucky Cycle
283(17)
Finaly Donesky
The View from the Castle: Reflections on the Kentucky Cycle Phenomenon
300(13)
Rodger Cunningham
Regional Consciousness and Political Imagination: The Appalachian Connection in an Anxious Nation
313(14)
Herbert Reid
Notes on The Kentucky Cycle
327(6)
Gurney Norman
Contributors 333(3)
Index 336

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