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Title Appalachia in the classroom [electronic resource] : teaching the region / edited by Theresa L. Burriss and Patricia M. Gantt.

Imprint Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.

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Description xxi, 280 p. : ill., maps.
Series Series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia
Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American literature -- Appalachian Region -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Appalachian Region -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Burriss, Theresa L.
Gantt, Patricia M., 1943-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780821420416 (hc : alk. paper)
9780821420423 (pb : alk. paper)
9780821444566 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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