Appalachia North: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781946684707)

"Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia--the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite: not quite "regular" America and not-quite Appalachia. Ferrence's sense of geographic ambiguity is compounded when he learns that his birthplace in western Pennsylvania is technically not a mountain but, instead, a dissected plateau shaped by the slow, deep cuts of erosion. That discovery is followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumor, setting Ferrence on a journey that is part memoir, part exploration of geology and place. Appalachia North is an investigation of how the labels of Appalachia have been drawn and written, and also a reckoning with how a body always in recovery can, like a region viewed always as a site of extraction, find new territories of growth"--

Author: Matthew Ferrence
ISBN-10: 1946684708
ISBN-13: 9781946684707
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2019
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.80d