From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, this cultural study reveals the role of 'Southern Mountain Whites' in American racial history and poetics. INDICE: - Introduction - PART I: AMERICAN PLURALISM AND APPALACHIA - Evangelizing Equality: Mountain Whites, Missionaries, and Millionaires (1834-1899) - Marketing Mountaineers: Ancestors, Empire, and Regional Ethnogenesis (1892-1909) - A New Republic: Harvard, Howard, and the New School for Social Research(1895-1920) - Jewish Publishing, Cultural Pluralism, and Regional Appalachia (1914-1932) - Reactionary Regionalism v. Southern Critical Quarterlies (1925-1945) - PART II: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF POETRY - Racing the Earth: Jesse Stuart's Man with a Bull Tongue Plow (1934) - 'Authentic Folk Feeling': James Still's Hounds on the Mountain (1937) - Rebinding 'The Book of the Dead,' Radical Modernists, and Appalachia: Muriel Rukeyser's U. S. 1 (1938) - The Tight Rope of Democracy: Don West's Clods of Southern Earth (1946)
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61093-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés