The anguish of displacement
Subtitle: the politics of literacy in the letters of mountain families in Shenandoah National Park
By: Katrina M. Powell.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Charlottesville, Va
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813926285
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- Virginia; Sociolinguistics -- Virginia; Appalachians (People) -- Correspondence; Internally displaced persons -- Virginia -- History; Shenandoah National Park (Va.) -- History
Genres: Correspondence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : understanding history through literacy; title: Literacy, status, and narrative representation; title: Representation, advocacy, and identification; title: Genre knowledge and assumptions about class and education; title: Resistance, negotiation, and social action; title: Social participation and resisting cultural codes; title: Rhetorics of displacement and the politics of eminent domain.