Bibliograph

Appalachian reckoning, a region responds to "Hillbilly Elegy", edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll

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Appalachian reckoning, a region responds to "Hillbilly Elegy", edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Appalachian reckoning

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1054366804

Responsibility statement

edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll

Sub title

a region responds to "Hillbilly Elegy"

Summary

In Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. -- adapted from back cover

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