Appalachian Reckoning : A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harkins, Anthony.

Contributor:

McCarroll, Meredith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vance, J. D. Hillbilly elegy.

Vance, J. D.

Appalachians (People)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019.

Summary:

2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion of interest during this period of political turmoil? Why have its ideas raised so much controversy? And how can debates about the book catalyze new, more inclusive political agendas for the region's future? Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in Appalachian Reckoning provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia's intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why This Book? / Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll

PART I. CONSIDERING HILLBILLY ELEGY

INTERROGATING

Hillbilly Elitism / T. R. C. Hutton

Social Capital / Jeff Mann /

Once Upon a Time in "Trumpalachia": Hillbilly Elegy, Personal Choice, and the Blame Game / Dwight B. Billings

Stereotypes on the Syllabus: Exploring Hillbilly Elegy's Use as an Instructional Text at Colleges and Universities / Elizabeth Catte

Benham, Kentucky, Coal Miner / Wise County, Virginia, Landscape / Theresa Burriss

Panning for Gold: A Reflection of Life from Appalachia / Ricardo Nazario y Colón

Will the Real Hillbilly Please Stand Up? Urban Appalachian Migration and Culture Seen through the Lens of Hillbilly Elegy / Roger Guy

What Hillbilly Elegy Reveals about Race in Twenty-First-Century America / Lisa R. Pruitt

Prisons Are Not Innovation / Lou Murrey

Down and Out in Middletown and Jackson: Drugs, Dependency, and Decline in J. D. Vance's Capitalist Realism / Travis Linnemann and Corina Medley

RESPONDING

Keep Your "Elegy": The Appalachia I Know Is Very Much Alive / Ivy Brashear

HE Said/SHE Said / Crystal Good

The Hillbilly Miracle and the Fall / Michael E. Maloney

Elegies / Dana Wildsmith

In Defense of J. D. Vance / Kelli Hansel Haywood

It's Crazy Around Here, I Don't Know What to Do about It, and I'm Just a Kid / Allen Johnson

Falling in Love," Balsam Bald, the Blue Ridge Parkway, 1982 / Danielle Dulken

Black Hillbillies Have No Time for Elegies / William H. Turner

PART II. BEYOND HILLBILLY ELEGY

Nothing Familiar / Jesse Graves

History / Jesse Graves

Tether and Plow / Jesse Graves

On and On: Appalachian Accent and Academic Power / Meredith McCarroll

Olivia's Ninth Birthday Party / Rebecca Kiger.

Kentucky, Coming and Going / Kirstin L. Squint

Resistance, or Our Most Worthy Habits / Richard Hague

Notes on a Mountain Man / Jeremy B. Jones

These Stories Sustain Me: The Wyrd-ness of My Appalachia / Edward Karshner

Watch Children / Luke Travis

The Mower-1933 / Robert Morgan

Consolidate and Salvage / Chelsea Jack

How Appalachian I Am / Robert Gipe

Aunt Rita along the King Coal Highway, Mingo County, West Virginia / Roger May

Holler / Keith S. Wilson

Loving to Fool with Things / Rachel Wise

Antebellum Cookbook / Kelly Norman Ellis

How to Make Cornbread, or Thoughts on Being an Appalachian from Pennsylvania Who Calls Virginia Home but Now Lives in Georgia / Jim Minick

Tonglen for My Mother / Linda Parsons

Olivia at the Intersection / Meg Wilson

Appalachian Apophenia, or The Psychogeography of Home / Jodie Childers

Canary Dirge / Dale Marie Prenatt

Poet, Priest, and "Poor White Trash" / Elizabeth Hadaway

List of Contributors

Sources and Permissions

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781946684806

1946684805