Southern Appalachia and the South. : A region within a region / / Volume Three : / John C. Inscoe.

• VerfasserIn: Inscoe, John C.,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Appalachian State University,, 1991.
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (209 pages)

This volume of the Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association explores the intersections between Southerners and Southern Appalachians and the theoretical and practical implication of regional identity, marginality, ethnic commonalities, and comparative perspectives during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- A Regionalism Within Regionalisms: Three Frameworks for Appalachian Studies -- Southern Appalachia and the South: A Region Within a Section -- Hegemony, Alienation and Identity Reformulation: Further Thoughts on a Comparative Approach to Appalachian Studies -- The Appalachian Frontier and the Southern Frontier: A Comparative Perspective -- The Enduring Legacy of the "Southern Rebellion": West Virginia's Weil-Being -- Forgotten Sisters: Mountain Women in the South -- Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Appalachia's Economic Dependency -- The New Deal for Tenant Farmers: Government Planning and Indigenous Community Development on the Cumberland Plateau -- Lawrence Augustus Oxley: The Beginnings of Social Work Among Blacks in North Carolina Counties -- Religious Freethinkers in the Southern Highlands -- Two-Party Politics in Appalachia? -- Political Culture in Jesse Stuart's Appalachia and the South: From Agrarian to Industrial Development -- A Cure for the Malaise of the Dislocated Southerner: The Writing of Jesse Stuart -- James Jones' Appalachian Soldier in His World War II Trilogy -- Southern Gothic and Appalachian Gothic: A Comparative Look at Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy -- The Roots of Appalachian English: Scotch-Irish or British Southern? -- "Shall We Teach 'Em or Learn 'Em?" Attitudes Toward Language in -- Appalachian Children's Literature.