Book chapter
Subalterns in the Hollers: Postcolonial Appalachia in Ron Rash’s Serena and The World Made Straight
Summoning the Dead, p.218
University of South Carolina Press
03/13/2018
Abstract
In an essay on her website, Appalachian author Lee Smith recounted a story in which she took her New England–born mother-in-law on a drive to her hometown in the mountains of western Virginia. Smith’s mother-in-law, surprised by the town’s visible poverty and the lack of those trappings typically associated with the Moonlight and Magnolias mythos of the South, asked, “Where are all the big houses?” to which Smith replied, “That was someplace else.” Indeed Smith has suggested that southern Appalachia exists in geographic limbo, defined by its negative space; after all much of Appalachia is latitudinally part of the
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- Title: Subtitle
- Subalterns in the Hollers: Postcolonial Appalachia in Ron Rash’s Serena and The World Made Straight
- Creators
- James Eric Ensley
- Contributors
- RANDALL WILHELM (Editor)ZACKARY VERNON (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Summoning the Dead, p.218
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/13/2018
- Academic Unit
- Special Collections and University Archives
- Record Identifier
- 9984024570602771
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