Catalog

Record Details

Catalog Search

[ 2 filters applied ]

Back To Results
Showing Item 8 of 8
Appalachian reckoning : a region responds to Hillbilly Elegy Cover Image Book Book

Appalachian reckoning : a region responds to Hillbilly Elegy

Harkins, Anthony, (editor.). McCarroll, Meredith, (editor.).

Summary: In Hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. -- adapted from back cover

Record details

  • ISBN: 1946684791
  • ISBN: 9781946684790
  • ISBN: 1946684783
  • ISBN: 9781946684783
  • Physical Description: ix, 421 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Part II. Beyond Hillbilly Elegy. Nothing familiar / Jesse Graves -- History / Jesse Graves -- Tether and plow / Jesse Graves -- On and on: Appalachian accent and academic power / Meredith McCarroll -- Olivia's ninth birthday party / Rebecca Kiger -- Kentucky, coming and going / Kirstin L. Squint -- Resistance, or our most worthy habits / Richard Hague -- Notes on a mountain man / Jeremy B. Jones -- These stories sustain me: the wyrd-ness of my Appalachia / Edward Karshner -- Watch children / Luke Travis -- The mower-1933 / Robert Morgan -- Consolidate and salvage / Chelsea Jack -- How Appalachian I am / Robert Gipe -- Aunt Rita along the King Coal Highway, Mingo County, West Virginia / Roger May -- Holler / Keith S. Wilson -- Loving to fool with things / Rachel Wise -- Antebellum cookbook / Kelly Norman Ellis -- How to make cornbread, or thoughts on being an Appalachian from Pennsylvania who calls Virginia home but now lives in Georgia / Jim Minick -- Tonglen for my Mother / Linda Parsons -- Olivia at the intersection / Meg Wilson -- Appalachian apophenia, or the psychogeography of home / Jodie Childers -- Canary dirge / Dale Marie Prenatt -- Poet, priest, and "poor white trash" / Elizabeth Hadaway.

Search for related items by subject

Subject: USA
Appalachen-Gebiet
Kulturelle Identität
Appalachen
Appalachian Region Economic conditions
Appalachian Region Social conditions
Appalachians (People) Social life and customs
Vance, James David 1984-
Vance, James David 1984-
Vance, J. D

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lackawanna County Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Albright Memorial Library 974 HARKINS (Text) 50686015504900 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library 974 HARKINS (Text) 50686015507309 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Back To Results
Showing Item 8 of 8

Additional Resources