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Rereading Appalachia: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies

Editat de Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Kim Donehower Contribuţii de Ryan Angus
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 dec 2017

Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them as illiterate or backward. Despite entrenched social and economic disadvantages, the region is also known for its strong sense of culture, language, and community.

In this innovative volume, a

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813174426
ISBN-10: 0813174422
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: The University Press of Kentucky
Seria Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies


Notă biografică

Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, associate professor of English at Indiana University--Purdue University Fort Wayne, is a contributor to Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy and The Norton Book of Composition Studies.

Kim Donehower is associate professor of English at the University of North Dakota and the coauthor of Rural Literacies.


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In this innovative volume, a multidisciplinary team of scholars challenge Appalachian stereotypes through an examination of language and rhetoric. Together, the contributors offer a new perspective on Appalachia and its literacy, hoping to counteract essentialist or class-based arguments about the region's people, and reexamine past research in the context of researcher bias.