Walk till the dogs get mean : meditations on the forbidden from contemporary appalachia / edited by Adrian Blevins, Karen Salyer McElmurray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blevins, Adrian, 1964- editor.

McElmurray, Karen Salyer, 1956- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Appalachian Region.

American literature.

Appalachian Region--Literary collections.

Appalachian Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today's finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies. In essays that take wide-ranging forms-making this an ideal volume for creative nonfiction classes-contributors write about families left behind, hard-earned educations, selves transformed, identities chosen, and risks taken. They consider the courage required for the inheritances they carry. Toughness and generosity alike characterize works by Dorothy Allison, bell hooks, Silas House, and others. These writers travel far away from the boundaries of a traditional Appalachia, and then circle back-always-to the mountains that made each of them the distinctive thinking and feeling people they ultimately became. The essays in Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean are an individual and collective act of courage. Contributors: Dorothy Allison, Rob Amberg, Pinckney Benedict, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Sheldon Lee Compton, Michael Croley, Richard Currey, Joyce Dyer, Sarah Einstein, Connie May Fowler, RJ Gibson, Mary Crockett Hill, bell hooks, Silas House, Jason Howard, David Huddle, Tennessee Jones, Lisa Lewis, Jeff Mann, Chris Offutt, Ann Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, Melissa Range, Carter Sickels, Aaron Smith, Jane Springer, Ida Stewart, Jacinda Townsend, Jessie van Eerden, Julia Watts, Charles Dodd White, and Crystal Wilkinson"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface; Forbidden Gods; Silas House: The Forbidden Gods; bell hooks: A Constant Mourning; Kathryn Stripling Byer: Water Wants to Know; Jessie Van Eerden: Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean; Pinckney Benedict: Orgo vs the Flatlanders; Dorothy Allison: Deciding to Live; O Ruiner of Holy Things; Carter Sickels: Bittersweet- On Transitioning and Finding Home; Chris Offutt: Someone Else; Jason Howard: Bastards and Ghosts; Jeff Mann: Offensive Hillbilly Queer; Jane Springer: Lo Siento, the Only People Who Know Where Lake Canasauga Is Live There & Aren't Telling

Julia Watts: Quare Theory- Some Thoughts on LGBT Appalachian WritingMelissa Range: Outsider Appalachian; Wayfaring Stranger; Tennessee Jones: Getting Out- The Grief of Transformation; Crystal Wilkinson: Strange Fruit Your Imagination Bears; David Huddle: Above My Raising- A Narrative of Betrayal; Charles Dodd White: What We Gain in the Hurt; Jacinda Townsend: Casablanca; Joyce Dyer: A Tiger in Your Backyard; Connie May Fowler: Rose; Halfalachian; Lisa Lewis: Where There Are Mountains, There Must Be Valleys; Aaron Smith: For Better or Worse, This Was My Country

Mary Crockett Hill: Confessions of a HalfalachianRob Amberg: Photographing the Forbidden; Michael Croley: Homeless; Sarah Einstein: Mountain Jews; Outlaw Heart; Ann Pancake: Tough; Sheldon Lee Compton: Dangerous Stories; Ida Stewart: Between, Beneath, Beyond- Tunnel Vision in Coal Country; Richard Currey: Believer's Ride- Writing from the Mountains; RJ Gibson: Outside the Fencelines of Eden; Jayne Anne Phillips: Outlaw Heart; Contributors; Editors; Acknowledgments; Credits

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821445310

0821445316

OCLC:

918984040