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Writing the Geography of the Blue Ridge Mountains: How Displacement Recorded the Land
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2002
- pp. 73-94
- 10.1353/bio.2002.0010
- Article
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This article discusses the multiple rhetoric(s) surrounding the displacement of mountain families in forming the Shenandoah National Park. Past and present representations of that displacement have made for a complex and vexed biography of the landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This project argues that an examination of historical and contemporary representations together will provide further insight into that complexity.