Appalachia Revisited : New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress /

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Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources, Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic, political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is also plagued by poverty, insufficient healthcar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fletcher, Rebecca Adkins (Editor ), Schumann, William R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Place matters (Series) (Lexington, Ky.)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Appalachian Region > Environmental conditions.
Appalachian Region > Economic conditions.
Appalachian Region > Social conditions.
Appalachian Region > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : place and place-making in Appalachia / William Schumann
  • part 1. Race, ethnicity, and gender
  • 1. Revisiting Appalachia, revisiting self / Kathryn L. Duvall, Kelly A. Dorgan, and Sadie P. Hutson
  • 2. Carolina Chocolate Drops : performative expressions and reception of Affrilachian identity / Yunina Barbour-Payne
  • 3. Beyond a wife's perspective on politics : one woman's expression of identity in western North Carolina in the postwar period / Amanda Zeddy
  • 4. Intersections of Appalachian identity / Anna Rachel Terman
  • part 2. Language, rhetoric, and literacy
  • 5. Appalachia beyond the mountains : ethical, community-based research in urban Appalachian neighborhoods / Kathryn Trauth Taylor
  • 6. Digital rhetorics of Appalachia and the cultural studies classroom / Jessica Blackburn
  • 7. Continuity and change of English consonants in Appalachia / Kirk Hazen, Jordan Lovejoy, Jaclyn Daugherty, and Madeline Vandevender
  • part 3. Economy and environment
  • 8. Frackonomics / Jacqueline Yahn
  • 9. Revisiting Appalachian icons in the production and consumption of tourist art / Kristin Kant-Byers
  • 10. From the coal mine to the prison yard : the human cost of Appalachia's new economy / Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer
  • 11. Walking the fence line of the crooked road : engaging in the marketplace of tourism while empowering a place-based civic commons / Anita Puckett
  • part 4. Engagement
  • 12. "No one's ever talked to us before" : participatory approaches and economic development in rural Appalachian communities / Tim Ezzell
  • 13. Strength in numbers : the Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises / Diane N. Loeffler and Jim King
  • 14. When collaboration leads to action : collecting and making history in a Deep South state / Mark Wilson
  • 15. Participation and transformation in twenty-first-century Appalachian scholarship / Gabriel A. Piser
  • (Re)introduction : the global neighborhoods of Appalachian studies / Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
  • Appendix : teaching exercises.

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