Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes

By Dwight B. Billings

Book Overview

Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle once again adopted these stereotypes, recasting the American myth as a story of repeated failure and poverty--the failure of the American spirit and the poverty of the American soul. Dismayed by national critics' lack of attention to the negative depictions of mountain people in the

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813190010
• ISBN13: 9780813190013
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher