Writing West Virginia : Place, People, and Poverty in Contemporary Literature from the Mountain State / Boyd Creasman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creasman, Boyd C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class in literature.

Women and literature.

Social values in literature.

Social role in literature.

Literature.

American literature--Women authors.

American literature.

Women and literature--West Virginia.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature--West Virginia--History and criticism.

West Virginia.

Appalachian Region.

West Virginia--In literature.

Appalachian Region--In literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2016]

Summary:

"This manuscript discusses the literary works of several West Virginia writers and how their fiction, characters, and novel settings reflect the values of this distinctively Appalachian state. Creasman also discusses varying gender roles and working class West Virginians in fiction by writers such as Breece and Ann Pancake, Benedict, McKinney, Settle, and Giardina, among others, and how these roles are often reflected in literature from West Virginia's writing community"-- Provided by publlsher.

Contents:

Introduction : Three themes and three types of transcendence

Davis Grubb's The night of the hunter

Mary Lee Settle's Beulah quintet

Breece D'J Pancake's short fiction

Denise Giardina's Storming heaven

Irene McKinney's Vivid companion

Ann Pancake's Strange as this weather has been

Jayne Anne Phillips's Lark and termite

Pinckney Benedict's Miracle boy and other stories.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781621901846

162190184X

OCLC:

1522769916