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- Book Title
- Dear Appalachia : Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction Since 18
- ISBN
- 9780813130101
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Dear Appalachia : Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Ethnic Studies / General, American / General
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Weight
- 27.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 396 Pages
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Much criticism has been directed at negative stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by movies, television shows, and news media. Books, on the other hand, often draw enthusiastic praise for their celebration of the simplicity and authenticity of the Appalachian region. Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 employs the innovative new strategy of examining fan mail, reviews, and readers' geographic affiliations to understand how readers have imagined the region and what purposes these imagined geographies have served for them. As Emily Satterwhite traces the changing visions of Appalachia across the decades, from the Gilded Age (1865-1895) to the present, she finds that every generation has produced an audience hungry for a romantic version of Appalachia. According to Satterwhite, best-selling fiction has portrayed Appalachia as a distinctive place apart from the mainstream United States, has offered cosmopolitan white readers a sense of identity and community, and has engendered feelings of national and cultural pride. Thanks in part to readers' faith in authors as authentic representatives of the regions they write about, Satterwhite argues, regional fiction often plays a role in creating and affirming regional identity. By mapping the geographic locations of fans, Dear Appalachia demonstrates that mobile white readers in particular, including regional elites, have idealized Appalachia as rooted, static, and protected from commercial society in order to reassure themselves that there remains an "authentic" America untouched by global currents. Investigating texts such as John Fox Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker (1954), James Dickey's Deliverance (1970), and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain (1997), Dear Appalachia moves beyond traditional studies of regional fiction to document the functions of these narratives in the lives of readers, revealing not only what people have thought about Appalachia, but why.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
ISBN-10
0813130107
ISBN-13
9780813130101
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108203366
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
396 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Dear Appalachia : Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878
Publication Year
2011
Subject
Ethnic Studies / General, American / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
27.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2011-037216
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
It is as innovative and creative a treatment of Appalachia as a social construct as any I know, and a prime example of the rich rewards inherent in the cross-disciplinary approach that continues to characterize so much of the best scholarship in Appalachian studies., "An important new contribution to our understanding of the creation and survival of the idea of Appalachia in the popular mind. Based primarily on a careful reading of fan mail and an impressive grasp of the scholarly literature, Dear Appalachia provides critical and fresh perspective on the politics of American identity." -- Ronald D Eller, author of Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945, " Dear Appalachia undertakes an important and needed project: to explore the cultural work that fiction set in Appalachia is doing for its varied readers. Satterwhite's scrupulous analysis of those readers' reactions offers provocative insights into the identity dynamics of white Americans." -- Chris Green, author of The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism, " Dear Appalchia advances our understanding of how Appalachia continues to be a created and malleable concept that serves the political and identity needs of the American public." -- West Virginia History, Satterwhite takes a look at how this area has been so variously portrayed in literature over the years, going far beyond just what readers and writers have decided, but why they have come to these conclusions and stereotypical viewpoints., ""Satterwhite's analysis offers a persuasive study on the identity politics and geographical dynamics of white American readers who have responded to works of popular Appalachian fiction." -- Marianne Worthington, The Journal of East Tennessee History" --, ""Dear Appalachia undertakes an important and needed project: to explore the cultural work that fiction set in Appalachia is doing for its varied readers. Satterwhite's scrupulous analysis of those readers' reactions offers provocative insights into the identity dynamics of white Americans." -- Chris Green, author of The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism" --, This is one of the most important books on Appalachian and American identity the Appalachian studies field has produced., ""An important new contribution to our understanding of the creation and survival of the idea of Appalachia in the popular mind. Based primarily on a careful reading of fan mail and an impressive grasp of the scholarly literature, Dear Appalachia provides critical and fresh perspective on the politics of American identity." -- Ronald D Eller, author of Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945" --, ""Dear Appalchia advaces our understnading of how Appalachia continues to be a created and malleable concept that serves the political and identity needs of the American public." -- Mark A. Roberts, West Virginia History" --, "Satterwhite's analysis offers a persuasive study on the identity politics and geographical dynamics of white American readers who have responded to works of popular Appalachian fiction." -- The History, Dear Appalchia advances our understanding of how Appalachia continues to be a created and malleable concept that serves the political and identity needs of the American public., ""In an innovative approach to research, Satterwhite analyzed authors' fan mail and readers' Internet reviews of popular fiction to learn about attitudes toward Appalachia."--Nuevo" --, ""This is one of the most important books on Appalachian and American identity the Appalachian studies field has produced." -- Rodger Cunningham, Journal of Appalachian Studies" --, Satterwhite's analysis offers a persuasive study on the identity politics and geographical dynamics of white American readers who have responded to works of popular Appalachian fiction., An important new contribution to our understanding of the creation and survival of the idea of Appalachia in the popular mind. Based primarily on a careful reading of fan mail and an impressive grasp of the scholarly literature, Dear Appalachia provides critical and fresh perspective on the politics of American identity., In an innovative approach to research, Satterwhite analyzed authors' fan mail and readers' Internet reviews of popular fiction to learn about attitudes toward Appalachia., Dear Appalachia goes beyond an explanation of how people view the region to tackle the question of why people think they way they do [and] traces the changing representations of the region across the decades., ""The 'dear' in the title captures a duality--the critical spirit and the epistolary methodology of Satterwhite's study of the roles of popular literature in and of Appalachia and its effects on readers."--Choice" --, "This is one of the most important books on Appalachian and American identity the Appalachian studies field has produced." -- Rodger Cunningham , Journal of Appalachian Studies, ""Satterwhite takes a look at how this area has been so variously portrayed in literature over the years, going far beyond just what readers and writers have decided, but why they have come to these conclusions and stereotypical viewpoints."--Knoxville News Sentinel" --, ""Dear Appalachia goes beyond an explanation of how people view the region to tackle the question of why people think they way they do [and] traces the changing representations of the region across the decades."--Morgon Messenger" --, "In an innovative approach to research, Satterwhite analyzed authors' fan mail and readers' Internet reviews of popular fiction to learn about attitudes toward Appalachia." -- Nuevo, The 'dear' in the title captures a duality--the critical spirit and the epistolary methodology of Satterwhite's study of the roles of popular literature in and of Appalachia and its effects on readers., "Satterwhite takes a look at how this area has been so variously portrayed in literature over the years, going far beyond just what readers and writers have decided, but why they have come to these conclusions and stereotypical viewpoints." -- Knoxville News Sentinel, "It is as innovative and creative a treatment of Appalachia as a social construct as any I know, and a prime example of the rich rewards inherent in the cross-disciplinary approach that continues to characterize so much of the best scholarship in Appalachian studies." -- John C. Inscoe , Journal of Southern History, " Dear Appalachia goes beyond an explanation of how people view the region to tackle the question of why people think they way they do [and] traces the changing representations of the region across the decades." -- Morgan Messenger, "The 'dear' in the title captures a duality--the critical spirit and the epistolary methodology of Satterwhite's study of the roles of popular literature in and of Appalachia and its effects on readers." -- Choice, ""It is as innovative and creative a treatment of Appalachia as a social construct as any I know, and a prime example of the rich rewards inherent in the cross-disciplinary approach that continues to characterize so much of the best scholarship in Appalachian studies." -- John C. Inscoe, The Journal of Southern History" --, Dear Appalachia undertakes an important and needed project: to explore the cultural work that fiction set in Appalachia is doing for its varied readers. Satterwhite's scrupulous analysis of those readers' reactions offers provocative insights into the identity dynamics of white Americans.
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
810.9/974
Lc Classification Number
Ps286.A6s28 2011
Copyright Date
2011
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