Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment - Appalachian Women's Literacies

Informationen zum Autor Erica Abrams Locklear is an associate professor in the Literature and Language department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She has published articles in the "Southern Literary Journal!" "Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual!" "Community Literacy Journal!" and the "North Carolina Folklore Journal." Klappentext In "Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment!" Erica Abrams Locklear blends literacy studies with literary criticism to analyze the central female characters in the works of Harriette Simpson Arnow! Linda Scott DeRosier! Denise Giardina! and Lee Smith. She shows how these authors deftly overturn stereotypes of an illiterate Appalachia by creating highly literate characters! women who not only cherish the power of words but also push the boundaries of what literacy means. "Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment "includes in-depth interviews with Linda Scott DeRosier and Lee Smith! making this an insightful study of an important literary genre. Zusammenfassung Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment blends literacy studies with literary criticism to analyze the central female characters in the works of Harriette Simpson Arnow, Linda Scott DeRosier, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith.

Product details

• Authors: Erica Abrams Locklear
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2011
• EAN: 9780821419656
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1965-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in; Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia; Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia; Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies