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Writers and Miners : Activism and Imagery in America /

Coal miners evoke admiration and sympathy from the public, and writers -- some seeking a muse, others a cause -- traditionally champion them. David C. Duke explores more than one hundred years of this tradition in literature, poetry, drama, and film. Duke argues that as most writers spoke about rath...

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Autor principal: Duke, David C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Idiosyncratic Activism while Assisting The Other -- 2. Two Appalachians: Don West and Denise Giardina; 3. Coal Mining in the Novel, the Short Story, and Genre Fiction; 4. Stage and Screen; 5. Coal Mining Fiction for the Young; 6. Coal Mining and the Poetic Imagination; 7. Voices from within the Mining Community; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 
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