...John C. Inscoe Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Faulkner, Race, and Appalachia John C. Inscoe Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, is a long way from the southern Ap­ palachians, and William Faulkner has never been noted as a chronicler of the mountain experience. But in at least...

... and their culture. Day found life in Appalachia to be virtually without hope, the region s institu­ tions lacking in integrity, and the Appalachian people in a state of moral and physical decline. He was at a loss to offer any solutions to what he saw as the overwhelming crush of Appalachia s problems. Bloody...

... the highlander s thoughts flow deeply. Few writers left an account so harsh and so critical of Appalachian people and their culture. Day found life in Appalachia to be virtually without hope, the region s institu­ tions lacking in integrity, and the Appalachian people in a state of moral and physical decline...

... endpoint but to the ongoing, performative reorganization of social life that the strike and its documentation come to entail, and finally, in the tenuous but still open connections between this strike and other radical practices in and beyond Appalachia, in and beyond ’68, this essay discerns another model...

... by Duke University Press 1983 224 The South Atlantic Quarterly some intriguing questions and offers some astute answers as to why Eskimos and Scots have made better corporate use of their regions natural resources than have the people of Appalachia. Perhaps his most convincing answer...

... Atlantic Quarterly some intriguing questions and offers some astute answers as to why Eskimos and Scots have made better corporate use of their regions natural resources than have the people of Appalachia. Perhaps his most convincing answer is that the recently discovered oil of the Eskimos and Scots...

.... Some of the worst pollution, for me, is visual pollution, and I count as part of that the dirt and misery of rural and urban slums which still abound over the South. In my trips over southern Appalachia I see some of the most disheartening signs of rural poverty, degraded housing, and diseased water...

... 423 Goldman, Mark I., The Politics of Poetry: Randall Jarrell s War 123 Hays, Peter L., Hemingway as Auteur 151 Humphries, Jefferson, Shards from the Wreckage of History: Antimaxims in Modern Poetry 22 Inscoe, John C., Faulkner, Race, and Appalachia 244 Jameson, Fredric, On Habits of the Heart 545...

... and complex alli­ ances. As a corner of Appalachia, its stereotypes threaten to cloud any attempt at an account of the place in general. Stewart (1996: 97–112), writing of another part of Appalachia, recounts the past of the area through a series of accounts that begin “I could tell you . . .” in order...

..., and that meant entering and winning primaries. If he lost one primary, he was in serious doubt as a candidate. 2 West Virginia was a poor state, the only one lying entirely within the region known as Appalachia. Its poverty was typical of that area. The falling demand for coal as fuel, and automation...

... that leadership we have an Appalachia. But in our free system, the opportunity is open to all to assume the mantle of the leader and herein lies our greatest strength. Out of the diversity of a free system can Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board for the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest, Dr...

... tradi­ tions in country music and builds on the culture s sense of the past. This might be regarded as a response to traumas of modernization, a response that has a parallel in regional religious expression more generally. In his study of Baptist traditions, Giving Glory to God in Appalachia, Howard...

... goals and am­ bitions; and finally, the entire notion of the folk rests on a simpli­ fied, nostalgic vision of the culture and economic conditions of early twentieth-century Appalachia.1 Yet the falsity of such claims to authenticity in no way diminishes their significance relative to blue­...

... the South s quaint penchant for storytelling. The more recent television representation of the South in the weekly drama Christy continues this trend. Based on Catherine Marshall s best-selling 1967 novel about her mother s life as a school teacher in Appalachia, Christy (which stars Kelly Martin of Life...

... Commu­ nity (Nashville, 1965); and Jack Weller, Yesterday s People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia (Lexington, 1965). For insights into the culture of Southern and Appa­ lachian women, see Margaret Jarman Hagood, Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman (New York, 1977 [1939...

... of the Southwest, accompanied by the fivestring banjo (in the late nineteenth century) and by the guitar (in the first decade of the twentieth century), similarly expanded the oral tradition as it spread beyond Appalachia. Ivey suggested that Benton s mural include the following: the heritage of white Protes...