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In the "Stranger People's" Country (Paperback)
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In the "Stranger People's" Country (Paperback)
Series: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
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"In the "Stranger People's" Country" tells the story of contact
between a late-nineteenth-century Tennessee mountain community and
an amateur archaeologist who wants to open the graves of the
prehistoric "leetle stranger people," a source of myth to the
mountaineers. A politician looking for votes in the country has
invited the archaeologist Shattuck to travel into the mountains
with him, but a mountain woman, Adelaide Yates, threatens to shoot
anyone who attempts to violate the graves. The courageous
mountaineer Felix Guthrie joins the defense of the "stranger
people" and competes with Shattuck for the attention of another
mountain woman, Letitia Pettingill. Author Mary Noailles Murfree
(1850-1922) uses dialect and vivid descriptions of mountain scenes
to introduce the reader to Appalachia and its people. She creates
respectful representations of Appalachian life and explores some of
the changes the arrival of outsiders brought to the mountains.
Murfree's depiction of social and aesthetic issues increases our
understanding of the nineteenth century and serves as a literary
precursor of the twentieth-century Appalachian activist movements
to preserve the environment against the strip-mining and chemical
industries. This edition of Murfree's 1891 novel, reprinted for the
first time, includes notes about Appalachian dialect and the
novel's references to archaeology, which have some basis in actual
archaeological discoveries in Tennessee.
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