Anthony Harkins, Meredith Mccarroll

Broschiertes Buch

Appalachian Reckoning

A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

Herausgeber: Harkins, Anthony; McCarroll, Meredith

Beschreibung

The essays and creative work collected in Appalachian Reckoning provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia's intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities.

Autor

Anthony Harkins is a professor of history at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he teaches courses in popular culture and twentieth-century United States history and American studies. He is the author of Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. Meredith McCarroll is the director of writing and rhetoric at Bowdoin College, where she teaches courses in writing, American literature, and film. She is the author of Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: West Virginia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781946684790
• ISBN-10: 1946684791
• Artikelnr.: 54166015