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Bloodroot : reflections on place by Appalachian women writers / Joyce Dyer, editor.

Dyer, Joyce, (editor.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780813120591
  • ISBN: 0813120594
  • ISBN: 9780813109831
  • ISBN: 0813109833
  • Physical Description: ix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, [1998]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Winner of the 1997 Appalachian studies award"--Half title page.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302).
Formatted Contents Note:
Flowering Ivy / Sheila Kay Adams 16 -- Border States / Lisa Alther 21 -- Mountains Dark and Close around Me / Maggie Anderson 31 -- Sound / Marilou Awiakta 40 -- Root Hog, or Die / Artie Ann Bates 52 -- Deep Water / Kathryn Stripling Byer 61 -- Good Questions / Jo Carson 71 -- Paradise in Price Hollow / Lou V.P. Crabtree 80 -- All This, and Honeysuckles Too / Doris Diosa Davenport 87 -- Mutant in Bandana / Hilda Downer 98 -- "The Past Is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past" / Wilma Dykeman 105 -- Women Born to Be Strong / Sidney Saylor Farr 111 -- Salt-Water Geechee Mounds / Nikky Finney 120 -- No Scapin the Booger Man / Denise Giardina 128 -- 400 Mulvaney Street / Nikki Giovanni 132 -- Uncle Orphy / Gail Godwin 140 -- Standing People / Ellesa Clay High 146 -- Writing in the Smokehouse / Lisa Koger 153 -- Voiceplace / George Ella Lyon 167 -- Keepers of the Legends / Sharyn McCrumb 175 -- Letter from a Poet in West Virginia / Llewellyn McKernan 187 -- A Natural History / Heather Ross Miller 192 -- Leaving Pre-Appalachia / Elaine Fowler Palencia 200 -- Premature Burial / Jayne Anne Phillips 209 -- Counting the Sums / Rita Sims Quillen 218 -- Song about the Story--The Story behind the Song / Jean Ritchie 225 -- Westward from Bald Mountain / Bettie Sellers 233 -- Search for the Beulah Quintet / Mary Lee Settle 243 -- Piddlin' / Anne Shelby 247 -- Big Stone Gap / Betsy Sholl 253 -- Appalachian Loaves and Fishes / Bennie Lee Sinclair 261 -- Inside Discoveries / Barbara Smith 272 -- Terrain of the Heart / Lee Smith 277 -- This House and This World / Jane Stuart 282 -- An Inquiry into Who My Grandmother Really Was / Meredith Sue Willis 289.
Subject:
American literature > Appalachian Region, Southern > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Women and literature > Appalachian Region, Southern > History > 20th century.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Women authors, American > Appalachian Region, Southern > Biography.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women > Appalachian Region, Southern > Intellectual life.
Women > Southern States > Intellectual life.
Regionalism in literature.
Women.
Womyn.
Appalachian Region, Southern > In literature.
Southern States > In literature.
Genre:
Biographies.

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