Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes by Billings, Dwight B.

Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813190013)

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Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes by Billings, Dwight B.

Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes

$28.00
Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes by Billings, Dwight B.

Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes

$28.00
Format: Paperback
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Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle once again adopted these stereotypes, recasting the American myth as a story of repeated failure and poverty--the failure of the American spirit and the poverty of the American soul. Dismayed by national critics' lack of attention to the negative depictions of mountain people in the

Author: Dwight B. Billings
ISBN-10: 0813190010
ISBN-13: 9780813190013
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2000
Pages: 362
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.94w x 0.73d

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