Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes

Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle once again adopted these stereotypes, recasting the American myth as a story of repeated failure and poverty--the failure of the American spirit and the poverty of the American soul. Dismayed by national critics' lack of attention to the negative depictions of mountain people in the

• | Author: Dwight B. Billings
• | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• | Publication Date: Nov 16, 2000
• | Number of Pages: 362 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0813190010
• | ISBN-13: 9780813190013