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The University Press of Kentucky
- Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
summary
Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the Year Winner of the Susan Koppleman Award of the Popular Culture Association for Best Edited Collection in Women's Studies Joyce Dyer is director of writing and associate professor of English at Hiram College, Ohio."
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. vii-x
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 1-15
- Flowering Ivy
- pp. 16-20
- Border States
- pp. 21-30
- Root Hog, or Die
- pp. 52-60
- KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER: Deep Water
- pp. 61-70
- Good Questions
- pp. 71-79
- Paradise in Price Hollow
- pp. 80-86
- All This, and Honeysuckles Too
- pp. 87-97
- Mutant in Bandana
- pp. 98-104
- "The Past Is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past"
- pp. 105-110
- Women Born to Be Strong
- pp. 111-119
- Salt-Water Geechee Mounds
- pp. 120-127
- No Scapin the Booger Man
- pp. 128-131
- 400 Mulvaney Street
- pp. 132-139
- Uncle Orphy
- pp. 140-145
- The Standing People
- pp. 146-152
- Writing in the Smokehouse
- pp. 153-166
- Voiceplace
- pp. 167-174
- Keepers of the Legends
- pp. 175-186
- Letter from a Poet in West Virginia
- pp. 187-191
- A Natural History
- pp. 192-199
- Leaving Pre-Appalachia
- pp. 200-208
- Premature Burial
- pp. 209-217
- Counting the Sums
- pp. 218-224
- The Song about the Story-The Story
- pp. 225-232
- Westward from Bald Mountain
- pp. 233-242
- The Search for the Beulah Quintet
- pp. 243-246
- Big Stone Gap
- pp. 253-260
- Appalachian Loaves and Fishes
- pp. 261-271
- Inside Discoveries
- pp. 272-286
- Terrain of the Heart
- pp. 277-281
- JANE STUART: This House and This World
- pp. 282-288
- WORKS CITED
- pp. 298-303
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813143392
Related ISBN(s)
9780813109831, 9780813120591, 9780813127569, 9780813143408
MARC Record
OCLC
860611889
Pages
304
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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