Writers and miners
Subtitle: activism and imagery in America
By: David C. Duke.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.; Coal miners in literature.; Coal mines and mining in literature.; Mines and mineral resources in literature.
Description: "Writers and Miners investigates the vexed political and creative relationship between activists and artists and those they seek to represent. By turning the tables on the writers fascinated with the subject of the miner, Duke shows how these writers' works reveal more about their own aspirations, goals, and prejudices than they ever suspected."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Idiosyncratic activism while assisting "the other"; title: Two Appalachians : Don West and Denise Giardina; title: Coal mining in the novel, the short story, and genre fiction; title: Stage and screen; title: Coal mining fiction for the young; title: Coal mining and the poetic imagination; title: Voices from within the mining community.