Bloodroot
Subtitle: reflections on place by Appalachian women writers
By: Joyce Dyer, editor.
Contributors: Dyer, Joyce.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: American literature -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Women and literature -- Appalachian Region, Southern.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Appalachian Region, Southern.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Women -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Intellectual life.; Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life.; Regionalism in literature.; Appalachian Region, Southern -- In literature.; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: Bloodroot is a perennial wildflower, native to the Appalachian region, that bears a single white flower in early spring. Its root contains a poisonous alkaloid, yet the reddish sap it exudes possesses healing powers. Could any image be more perfect for the mix of pain and pleasure that informs the memoirs of the women in this volume?

Over the past 150 years, some of the most beautiful and powerful voices in American letters have emerged from this hardscrabble region. In Bloodroot thirty-five of these voices describe Appalachia with poignancy, eloquence, forthrightness, and humor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-302).