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Rereading Appalachia : literacy, place, and cultural resistance /

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Webb-Sunderhaus, Sara, Donehower, Kim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Sara Webb-Sunderhaus
  • Kim Donehower
  • How to reread Appalachian literacy research / Kim Donehower
  • Conflicted rhetorics of Appalachian identity in the Kentucky moonlight schools / Krista Bryson
  • Appalachian identities and the difficulties of archival literacy research / Emma M. Howes
  • The transition to college for first-generation students from extractive industry Appalachia / Todd Snyder
  • How reading and writing saved a gay preacher in central Appalachia / Gregory E. Griffey
  • Diverse rhetorical scenes of urban Appalachian literacies / Kathryn Trauth Taylor
  • Place-conscious literacy practices in one Appalachian college town / Nathan Shepley
  • A functional linguistics approach to Appalachian literacy
  • Joshua Iddings
  • Ryan Angus
  • Rhetorical theories of Appalachian literacies / Sara Webb-Sunderhaus
  • Afterword / Peter Mortensen.