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Rereading Appalachia
. Ed(S): Webb-Sunderhaus, Sara; Donehower, Kim
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Editor(s): Webb-Sunderhaus, Sara; Donehower, Kim. Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; CFC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 825.
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them as illiterate or backward. Despite entrenched social and economic disadvantages, the region is also known for its strong sense of culture, language, and community.
In this innovative volume, a multidisciplinary team of both established and rising scholars challenge Appalachian stereotypes through an examination of language and rhetoric. Together, the contributors offer a new perspective on Appalachia and its literacy, ... Read more
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them as illiterate or backward. Despite entrenched social and economic disadvantages, the region is also known for its strong sense of culture, language, and community.
In this innovative volume, a multidisciplinary team of both established and rising scholars challenge Appalachian stereotypes through an examination of language and rhetoric. Together, the contributors offer a new perspective on Appalachia and its literacy, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
Number of Pages
238
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813165592
SKU
V9780813165592
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About . Ed(S): Webb-Sunderhaus, Sara; Donehower, Kim
Kim Donehower is associate professor of English at the University of North Dakota, USA, and the coauthor of Rural Literacies. Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, associate professor of English at Indiana University--Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA, is a contributor to Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy and The Norton Book of Composition Studies.
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