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...
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic develo...
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.
In this innovative volume, a multidisciplinary team of scholars challenge Appalachian stereotypes through an examination of language and rhetoric. Tog...
