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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.
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.
In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony
Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar
hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "white trash"-has been
viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent
degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of
traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and
thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of
contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism
and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also
inbreeding and bloody feuds. Spanning film, literature, and the
entire expanse of American popular culture, from D. W. Griffith to
hillbilly music to the Internet, Harkins illustrates how the image
of the hillbilly has consistently served as both a marker of social
derision and regional pride. He traces the corresponding changes in
representations of the hillbilly from late-nineteenth century
America, through the great Depression, the mass migrations of
Southern Appalachians in the 1940s and 1950s, the War on Poverty in
the mid 1960s, and to the present day. Harkins also argues that
images of hillbillies have played a critical role in the
construction of whiteness and modernity in twentieth century
America. Richly illustrated with dozens of photographs, drawings,
and film and television stills, this unique book stands as a
testament to the enduring place of the hillbilly in the American
imagination.
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