Volume 48 Numbers 3-4 ● 2021
TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES: ATTACHMENT AND APPROPRIATION IN "OUR" APPALACHIA ▪ Special Edition
Complicit (A Brief History), poem by Pauletta Hansel... 135
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
The Road, poem by Pauletta Hansel... 168
Igualmente, poem by Dana Wildsmith... 169
ACTIVISM & LITERATURE
Bearing Witness: Mountains as Sacred/Exploited Spaces in Appalachian Narratives by Mae Miller Claxton... 170
Some Facts About Home, poem by Pauletta Hansel... 186
Making Distinctions, poem by Holly Day... 187
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
Their War on Poverty, poem by Pauletta Hansel... 245
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
An Appalachian Child, poem by Charles A. Swanson... 278
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
The Ride, poem by Holly Day... 291
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
Pangaea, poem by Richard Hague... 316
APPALACHIA BY THE NUMBERS... 318
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