Confronting Appalachian stereotypes
Subtitle: back talk from an American region
By: Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford editors ; foreword by Ronald D. Eller.
Contributors: Billings, Dwight B., 1948-; Norman, Gurney, 1937-; Ledford, Katherine.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Appalachians (People) -- Ethnic identity.; Appalachians (People) -- Social conditions.; Stereotype (Psychology) -- United States.; Appalachians (People) in literature.; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions.
Description: "In Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes, historians, literary scholars, sociologists, creative writers, and activists talk back to the American mainstream, confronting head-on those who would view their home region one-dimensionally."--BOOK JACKET.

"The essays provide a variety of responses from people who live or were born in the region. Some examine the sources of Appalachian mythology in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature.

Others reveal personal experiences and examples of grassroots activism that confound and contradict accepted images of "hillbillies." The volume ends with a series of critiques aimed directly at The Kentucky Cycle and similar contemporary works that highlight the sociological, political, and cultural assumptions about Appalachia fueling today's false stereotypes."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.