Writing West Virginia
Subtitle: place, people, and poverty in contemporary literature from the Mountain State
By: Boyd C. Creasman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781621901846
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; Women authors; Women and literature; Social role in literature; Working class in literature; Social values in literature; In literature
Description: "This manuscript discusses the literary works of several West Virginia writers and how their fiction, characters, and novel settings reflect the values of this distinctively Appalachian state. Creasman also discusses varying gender roles and working class West Virginians in fiction by writers such as Breece and Ann Pancake, Benedict, McKinney, Settle, and Giardina, among others, and how these roles are often reflected in literature from West Virginia's writing community" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Three themes and three types of transcendence; title: Davis Grubb's The night of the hunter; title: Mary Lee Settle's Beulah quintet; title: Breece Pancake's short fiction; title: Denise Giardina's Storming heaven; title: Irene McKinney's Vivid companion; title: Ann Pancake's Strange as this weather has been; title: Jayne Anne Phillips's Lark and termite; title: Pinckney Benedict's Miracle boy and other stories; title: Afterword.