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Appalachian Reckoning - A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy (Hardcover)
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Appalachian Reckoning - A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy (Hardcover)
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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.
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