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"The collection is well arranged, and the historical pieces are connected nicely to current research. The authors challenge the pure, Anglo-Saxon Appalachian and point out the diversity of Appalachia, so that other ethnicities and orientations are described."""" - Katherine Sohn, professor emeritus of English at Pikeville College """"In that nearly all chapters draw on a particular theoretical stance or scholarship, the book promises to contribute to the advancement of several theoretical orientations. The editors assemble papers that offer distinct and much-needed points of view on the subject of literacy. These include but are not limited to race, gender, class, homosexuality, religion, and diasporic identity."""" - Anita Puckett, director of Appalachian Studies at Virginia Tech """"This collection makes an important, worthwhile contribution to the fields of literacy studies and Appalachian studies. By investigating the deeply embedded cultural narratives that we have about Appalachia, and Appalachian literacies in particular, it encourages us to become aware of those narratives and to resist a too-easy reliance on them."""" - Erica Abrams Locklear, UNC Asheville"

The collection is well arranged, and the historical pieces are connected nicely to current research. The authors challenge the pure, Anglo-Saxon Appalachian and point out the diversity of Appalachia, so that other ethnicities and orientations are described. - Katherine Sohn, professor emeritus of English at Pikeville College In that nearly all chapters draw on a particular theoretical stance or scholarship, the book promises to contribute to the advancement of several theoretical orientations. The editors assemble papers that offer distinct and much-needed points of view on the subject of literacy. These include but are not limited to race, gender, class, homosexuality, religion, and diasporic identity. - Anita Puckett, director of Appalachian Studies at Virginia Tech This collection makes an important, worthwhile contribution to the fields of literacy studies and Appalachian studies. By investigating the deeply embedded cultural narratives that we have about Appalachia, and Appalachian literacies in particular, it encourages us to become aware of those narratives and to resist a too-easy reliance on them. - Erica Abrams Locklear, UNC Asheville

The collection is well arranged, and the historical pieces are connected nicely to current research. The authors challenge the pure, Anglo-Saxon Appalachian and point out the diversity of Appalachia, so that other ethnicities and orientations are described. - Katherine Sohn, professor emeritus of English at Pikeville College In that nearly all chapters draw on a particular theoretical stance or scholarship, the book promises to contribute to the advancement of several theoretical orientations. The editors assemble papers that offer distinct and much-needed points of view on the subject of literacy. These include but are not limited to race, gender, class, homosexuality, religion, and diasporic identity. - Anita Puckett, director of Appalachian Studies at Virginia Tech This collection makes an important, worthwhile contribution to the fields of literacy studies and Appalachian studies. By investigating the deeply embedded cultural narratives that we have about Appalachia, and Appalachian literacies in particular, it encourages us to become aware of those narratives and to resist a too-easy reliance on them. - Erica Abrams Locklear, UNC Asheville

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Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, associate professor of English at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, is a contributor to Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy and The Norton Book of Composition Studies. Kim Donehower is associate professor of English at the University of North Dakota and the coauthor of Rural Literacies.

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