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Imagine the world's greatest prophet reincarnated in the modern age. At thirteen years old, what might teachers think of her as she stares out the window during math class? What would psychiatrists think of her when she imagines things, thinks things, and sees things normal people do not? What would members of the establishment try to do to her in their efforts to help? How would this free spirited young person react to society's efforts to normalize her? And what would she grow to think of those powers governing a society that singles her out as one with a type of mind that must be altered?...

In this innovative volume, a multidisciplinary team of scholars challenge Appalachian stereotypes through an examination of language and rhetoric. Together, the contributors offer a new perspective on Appalachia and its literacy, hoping to counteract essentialist or class-based arguments about the region's people, and reexamine past research in the context of researcher bias.