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Appalachian reckoning : a region responds to Hillbilly elegy /

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 exp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Harkins, Anthony (Autor), McCarroll, Meredith (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Why this book? / Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll.
  • Part I. Considering Hillbilly Elegy. Interrogating. Hillbilly elitism / T.R.C. Hutton
  • Social capital / Jeff Mann
  • Once upon a time in "Trumpalachia": Hillbilly Elegy, personal choice, and the blame game / Dwight B. Billings
  • Stereotypes on the syllabus: exploring Hillbilly Elegy's use as an instructional text at colleges and universities / Elizabeth Catte
  • Benham, Kentucky, coal miner / Wise County, Virginia, landscape / Theresa Burriss
  • Panning for gold: A reflection of life from Appalachia / Ricardo Nazario y Colón
  • Will the real hillbilly please stand up? Urban Appalachian migration and culture seen through the lens of Hillbilly Elegy / Roger Guy
  • What Hillbilly Elegy reveals about race in twenty-first-century America / Lisa R. Pruitt
  • Prisons are not innovation / Lou Murrey
  • Down and out in Middletown and Jackson: drugs, dependency, and decline in J.D. Vance's Capitalist Realism / Travis Linnemann and Corina Medley. Responding. Keep your "elegy": the Appalachia I know is very much alive / Ivy Brashear
  • HE said/SHE said / Crystal Good
  • The hillbilly miracle and the fall / Michael E. Maloney
  • Elegies / Dana Wildsmith
  • In defense of J.D. Vance / Kelli Hansel Haywood
  • It's crazy around here, I don't know what to do about It, and I'm just a kid / Allen Johnson
  • "Falling in love," Balsam Bald, the Blue Ridge Parkway, 1982 / Danielle Dulken
  • Black hillbillies have no time for elegies / William H. Turner.
  • Part II. Beyond Hillbilly Elegy. Nothing familiar / Jesse Graves
  • History / Jesse Graves
  • Tether and plow / Jesse Graves
  • On and on: Appalachian accent and academic power / Meredith McCarroll
  • Olivia's ninth birthday party / Rebecca Kiger
  • Kentucky, coming and going / Kirstin L. Squint
  • Resistance, or our most worthy habits / Richard Hague
  • Notes on a mountain man / Jeremy B. Jones
  • These stories sustain me: the wyrd-ness of my Appalachia / Edward Karshner
  • Watch children / Luke Travis
  • The mower-1933 / Robert Morgan
  • Consolidate and salvage / Chelsea Jack
  • How Appalachian I am / Robert Gipe
  • Aunt Rita along the King Coal Highway, Mingo County, West Virginia / Roger May
  • Holler / Keith S. Wilson
  • Loving to fool with things / Rachel Wise
  • Antebellum cookbook / Kelly Norman Ellis
  • How to make cornbread, or thoughts on being an Appalachian from Pennsylvania who calls Virginia home but now lives in Georgia / Jim Minick
  • Tonglen for my Mother / Linda Parsons
  • Olivia at the intersection / Meg Wilson
  • Appalachian apophenia, or the psychogeography of home / Jodie Childers
  • Canary dirge / Dale Marie Prenatt
  • Poet, priest, and "poor white trash" / Elizabeth Hadaway.