Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance by Webb-Sunderhaus, Sara

Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813174426)

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Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance by Webb-Sunderhaus, Sara

Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance

$28.00
Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance by Webb-Sunderhaus, Sara

Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance

$28.00
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: Sara Webb-Sunderhaus
ISBN-10: 0813174422
ISBN-13: 9780813174426
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2017
Pages: 238
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

By Sara Webb-Sunderhaus
By Sara Webb-Sunderhaus
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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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