Bloodroot
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Bloodroot

Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Bloodroot

Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers

About this book

Winner of the 1997 Appalachian Studies Award Appalachian Writers Association 1999 Book of the Year Winner of the Susan Koppleman Award of the Popular Culture Association for Best Edited Collection in Women's Studies Joyce Dyer is director of writing and associate professor of English at Hiram College, Ohio."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Bloodroot
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. SHEILA KAY ADAMS: Flowering Ivy
  9. LISA ALTHER: Border States
  10. MAGGIE ANDERSON: The Mountains Dark and Close around Me
  11. MARILOU AWIAKTA: Sound
  12. ARTIE ANN BATES: Root Hog, or Die
  13. KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER: Deep Water
  14. JO CARSON: Good Questions
  15. LOU V.P. CRABTREE: Paradise in Price Hollow
  16. DORIS DIOSA DAVENPORT: All This, and Honeysuckles Too
  17. HILDA DOWNER: Mutant in Bandana
  18. WILMA DYKEMAN: "The Past Is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past"
  19. SIDNEY SAYLOR FARR: Women Born to Be Strong
  20. NIKKY FINNEY: Salt-Water Geechee Mounds
  21. DENISE GIARDINA: No Scapin the Booger Man
  22. NIKKI GIOVANNI: 400 Mulvaney Street
  23. GAIL GODWIN: Uncle Orphy
  24. ELLESA CLAY HIGH: The Standing People
  25. LISA KOGER: Writing in the Smokehouse
  26. GEORGE ELLA LYON: Voiceplace
  27. SHARYN MCCRUMB: Keepers of the Legends
  28. LLEWELLYN MCKERNAN: Letter from a Poet in West Virginia
  29. HEATHER ROSS MILLER: A Natural History
  30. ELAINE FOWLER PALENCIA: Leaving Pre-Appalachia
  31. JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS: Premature Burial
  32. RITA SIMS QUILLEN: Counting the Sums
  33. JEAN RITCHIE: The Song about the Story-The Story
  34. BETTIE SELLERS: Westward from Bald Mountain
  35. MARY LEE SETTLE: The Search for the Beulah Quintet
  36. ANNE SHELBY: Piddlin'
  37. BETSY SHOLL: Big Stone Gap
  38. BENNIE LEE SINCLAIR: Appalachian Loaves and Fishes
  39. BARBARA SMITH: Inside Discoveries
  40. LEE SMITH: Terrain of the Heart
  41. JANE STUART: This House and This World
  42. MEREDITH SUE WILLIS: An Inquiry into Who My Grandmother Really Was
  43. WORKS CITED