Out of the Mountains. Meredith Sue Willis
Языкознание. Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
Out of the Mountains
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780821443316
Автор произведения Meredith Sue Willis
Жанр Языкознание
Серия Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
Издательство Ingram
Meredith Sue Willis ’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities. Willis’s stories explore the complex negotiations between longtime natives of the region and its newcomers and the rifts that develop within families over current issues such as mountaintop removal and homophobia. Always, however, the situations depicted in these stories are explored in the service of a deeper understanding of the people involved, and of the place. This is not the mythic version of Appalachia, but the Appalachia of the twenty-first century.