Volume 48, Numbers 3-4

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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