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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
West Virginia University Press, 2019 Paper: 978-1-946684-79-0 | eISBN: 978-1-946684-80-6 | Cloth: 978-1-946684-78-3 Library of Congress Classification F210.A58 2019 Dewey Decimal Classification 974
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. 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. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia’s intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities. See other books on: Appalachian Region | Appalachians (People) | Rural | Social Classes & Economic Disparity | South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) See other titles from West Virginia University Press |
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
West Virginia University Press, 2019
Paper: 978-1-946684-79-0
eISBN: 978-1-946684-80-6
Cloth: 978-1-946684-78-3
Paper: 978-1-946684-79-0
eISBN: 978-1-946684-80-6
Cloth: 978-1-946684-78-3
2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion of interest during this period of political turmoil? Why have its ideas raised so much controversy? And how can debates about the book catalyze new, more inclusive political agendas for the region’s future?
Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. 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. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia’s intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities.
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