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Author:

Creasman, Boyd C., author.

Title:

Writing West Virginia : place, people, and poverty in contemporary literature from the Mountain State / Boyd Creasman.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

The University of Tennessee Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

183 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--West Virginia--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--West Virginia.
Social role in literature.
Working class in literature.
Social values in literature.
Appalachian Region--In literature.
West Virginia--In literature.
American literature.
American literature--Women authors.
Literature.
Social role in literature.
Social values in literature.
Women and literature.
Working class in literature.
Appalachian Region.
West Virginia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Three themes and three types of transcendence -- Davis Grubb's The night of the hunter -- Mary Lee Settle's Beulah quintet -- Breece Pancake's short fiction -- Denise Giardina's Storming heaven -- Irene McKinney's Vivid companion -- Ann Pancake's Strange as this weather has been -- Jayne Anne Phillips's Lark and termite -- Pinckney Benedict's Miracle boy and other stories -- Afterword.

Summary:

"This manuscript discusses the literary works of several West Virginia writers and how their fiction, characters, and novel settings reflect the values of this distinctively Appalachian state. Creasman also discusses varying gender roles and working class West Virginians in fiction by writers such as Breece and Ann Pancake, Benedict, McKinney, Settle, and Giardina, among others, and how these roles are often reflected in literature from West Virginia's writing community" -- Provided by publlsher.

ISBN:

162190184X
9781621901846

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898334228

LCCN:

2014047477

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)