Appalachia in the classroom : teaching the region / / edited by Theresa L. Burriss and Patricia M. Gantt.

• Superior document: Series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Burriss, Theresa L.; Gantt, Patricia M., 1943-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia.
• Physical Description: xxi, 280 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

Intro to Appalachian studies : navigating myths of Appalachian exceptionalism / Emily Satterwhite -- Listening to Black Appalachian laundrywomen : teaching with photographs, letters, diaries, and lost voices / Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt -- The southern highlands according to Hollywood : teaching Appalachian history through film / John C. Inscoe -- Building bridges with Ron Rash's The world made straight : results from one university and high school partnership / Erica Abrams Locklear -- The feast hall, the arsenal, and the mirror : teaching literature to students at risk / Jeff Mann -- I hear Appalachia singing : teaching Appalachian literature in a general education American literature course / Linda Tate -- "Way back yonder" but not so far away : teaching Appalachian folktales / Tina L. Hanlon -- Teaching modern Appalachia in Wilma Dykeman's The Far family / Patricia M. Gantt -- Fred Chappell's I am one of you forever as a subject for literary analysis and an alternative image of mid-twentieth-century Appalachia / Ricky L. Cox -- Startling morals : teaching ecofiction with Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer / Felicia Mitchell -- Appalachian poetry : a field guide for teachers / R. Parks Lanier Jr -- From Harlem home to Affrilachia : teaching the literary journey / Theresa L. Burriss -- Teaching the poetry and prose of Marilou Awiakta / Grace Toney Edwards -- Toward "crystal-tight arrays" : teaching the evolving art of Robert Morgan's poetry / Robert M. West.