Edited by Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne
Miller
These two volumes constitute the most comprehensive anthology of
writings on Appalachia ever assembled. Representing the work of
approximately two hundred authors--fiction writers, poets, scholars
in disciplines such as history, literary criticism, and
sociology--Appalachia Inside Out reveals the fascinating diversity
of the region and lays to rest many of the reductive stereotypes
long associated with it.
Intended as a sequel to the widely respected collection Voices of
the Hills, edited by Robert Higgs and Ambrose Manning and published
twenty years ago, these volumes reflect the recent proliferation of
imaginative and critical writing about Appalachia--a proliferation
that suggests nothing less than a renaissance of collective
self-assessment. The selections are organized around a variety of
themes (including "War and Revolution," "Feuds and Violence,"
"Nature and Progress," "Dialect and Language," "Exile, Return, and
Sense of Place," and "Majority and Minority") and reveal both the
radical changes the region has undergone as well as the persistence
of certain defining features.
The title Appalachia Inside Out refers in part to the fact that
Appalachia has never existed in timeless isolation from the rest of
country and the world; rather, it has both absorbed outside
influences and exerted influence of its own. The title also
indicates the editors' effort to look not only at the visible
Appalachia but at the forces that underlie its history and culture.
What emerges in these pages is an Appalachia both familiar and
strange: a mirror of lived life on the one hand and, on the other,
a haunted realm of unimaginable loss and bewitching
possibility.
The Editors: Robert J. Higgs is professor of English, emeritus, at
East Tennessee State University and the author of Laurel and Thorn:
The Athlete in American Literature.
Ambrose N. Manning is professor of English, emeritus, at East
Tennessee State University and a noted collector of folk songs and
folklore.
Jim Wayne Miller, a poet, novelist, and essayist, is a professor in
the Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies at
Western Kentucky University.
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