Volume 48 Numbers 3-4 ● 2021
TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES: ATTACHMENT AND APPROPRIATION IN “OUR” APPALACHIA ▪ Special Edition
SIGNS OF THE TIMES... 136
THE POETS... 154
INTRODUCTION
- Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in “Our” Appalachia by Guest Editors, Christian Quendler and Benjamin Robbins... 156
POETRY
- Complicit (A Brief History), poem by Pauletta Hansel... 135
- The Road, poem by Pauletta Hansel... 168
- Igualmente, poem by Dana Wildsmith... 169
- Some Facts About Home, poem by Pauletta Hansel... 186
- Making Distinctions, poem by Holly Day... 187
- Their War on Poverty, poem by Pauletta Hansel... 245
- An Appalachian Child, poem by Charles A. Swanson... 278
- The Ride, poem by Holly Day... 291
- Pangaea, poem by Richard Hague... 316
ACTIVISM & LITERATURE
- Bearing Witness: Mountains as Sacred/Exploited Spaces in Appalachian Narratives by Mae Miller Claxton... 170
PHOTOGRAPHY+
- Looking at Appalachia: Online Intermediality, Collaboration, and Mountain Multiplicity by Katharina Fackler... 188
POETRY & PLACE
- Quilting the Mountains into a Poem: Ron Rash’s Appalachia by Frédérique Spill...212
MEDIA, REPRESENTATION, & ENVIRONMENT
- Agency and Environmentalism in Appalachia by Diane Martinez… 228
ACTIVISM & LITERATURE
- “The Best Way to Fight Them is Refuse to Leave”: Mountain Removal and White Vulnerability in Ann Pancake’s Strange as this Weather Has Been by Evangelia Kindinger... 246
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
- New Forms and Strategies of Cultural Self-Expression Emerging from Struggles over Representations of Appalachia by Mae Miller Claxton, Diane Martinez, Frédérique Spill, Katharina Fackler, Evangelia Kindinger, with Christian Quendler and Benjamin Robbins... 266
FIRST PERSON & FICTION WRITING
- Where I Belong by Pamela Duncan...280
REVIEW ESSAY
- A Close Look: A French Scholar on Ron Rash [review of The Radiance of Small Things in Ron Rash's Writing by Frédérique Spill] by Robert M. West... 288
BOOK REVIEWS
- Theresa Burriss on Writing Appalachia: An Anthology edited by Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd... 292
- Johannes Vith on After Coal: Stories of Survival in Appalachia and Wales by Tom Hansell... 294
- Benjamin Robbins on Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film by Meredith McCarroll... 297
- John Lang on Conversations with Robert Morgan edited by Randall Wilhelm and Jesse Graves...300
- Katherine E. Ledford on LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia edited by Jeff Mann and Julia Watts… 302
- Savannah Murray on Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachia Nature Writing in the Anthropocene by Jessica Cory... 304
IN MEMORIAM
- In Memoriam: Hywel Francis by Patricia D. Beaver... 306
CHRONICLE ... 310
APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS... 318
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