The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature Contributor(s): Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0821415093 ISBN-13: 9780821415092 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $59.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2003 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Feminist - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
Dewey: 810.997 |
LCCN: 2003048692 |
Series: Gender and Ethnicity in Appalachia (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.44" W x 9.22" (1.22 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Appalachians - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Contemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development. Effie Waller Smith, an African American woman writing of her love for the Appalachian mountains, wove discussions of women's rights, racial tension, and cultural difference into her Appalachian poetry. Grace MacGowan Cooke participated in avant-garde writers' colonies with the era's literary lights and applied their progressive ideals to her fiction about the Appalachia of her youth. Emma Bell Miles, witness to poverty, industrialization, and violence against women, wrote poignant and insightful critiques of her Appalachian home. |