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I. (Re)Introducing Appalachia: Talking Back to Stereotypes |
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Beyond Isolation and Homogeneity: Diversity and the History of Appalachia |
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II. Speaking of ``Hillbillies'': Literary Sources of Contemporary Stereotypes |
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A Landscape and a People Set Apart: Narratives of Exploration and Travel in Early Appalachia |
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``Deadened Color and Colder Horror'': Rebecca Harding Davis and the Myth of Unionist Appalachia |
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67 | (18) |
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The Racial ``Innocence'' of Appalachia: William Faulkner and the Mountain South |
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85 | (13) |
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A Judicious Combination of Incident and Psychology: John Fox Jr. and the Southern Mountaineer Motif |
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Where ``Bloodshed Is a Pastime'': Mountain Feuds and Appalachian Stereotyping |
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119 | (19) |
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Where Did Hillbillies Come From? Tracing Sources of the Comic Hillbilly Fool in Literature |
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III. Speaking More Personally: Responses to Appalachian Stereotypes |
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The ``R'' Word: What's So Funny (and Not So Funny) about Redneck Jokes |
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153 | (8) |
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Appalachian Images: A Personal History |
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161 | (13) |
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174 | (10) |
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On Being ``Country'': One Affrilachian Woman's Return Home |
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184 | (3) |
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187 | (4) |
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If There's One Thing You Can Tell Them, It's that You're Free |
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191 | (12) |
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IV. Sometimes Actions Speak Louder than Words: Activism in Appalachia |
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The Grass Roots Speak Back |
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203 | (12) |
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Miners Talk Back: Labor Activism in Southeastern Kentucky in 1922 |
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215 | (13) |
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Coalfield Women Making History |
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228 | (23) |
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Paving the Way: Urban Organizations and the Image of Appalachians |
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251 | (16) |
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Stories of AIDS in Appalachia |
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267 | (16) |
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V. Recycling Old Stereotypes: Critical Responses to The Kentucky Cycle |
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America Needs Hillbillies: The Case of The Kentucky Cycle |
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283 | (17) |
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The View from the Castle: Reflections on the Kentucky Cycle Phenomenon |
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300 | (13) |
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Regional Consciousness and Political Imagination: The Appalachian Connection in an Anxious Nation |
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313 | (14) |
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Notes on The Kentucky Cycle |
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Contributors |
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Index |
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