Southern Appalachian Storytellers - Interviews With Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Writer and storyteller Saundra Gerrell Kelley has contributed articles to the Jonesborough Herald & Tribune, the Tallahassee Democrat (Florida), and the north Florida environmental anthology, Between Two Rivers. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida. Klappentext To be from Appalachia--to be at home there and to love it passionately--informs the narratives of each of the sixteen storytellers featured in this work. Their stories are rich in the lore of the past, deeply influenced by family, especially their grandparents, and the ancient mountains they saw every day of their lives as they were growing up. Zusammenfassung To be from Appalachia - to be at home there and to love it passionately - informs the narratives of each of the sixteen storytellers featured in this work. Their stories are rich in the lore of the past! deeply influenced by family! especially their grandparents! and the ancient mountains they saw every day of their lives as they were growing up. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsPreface      Sheila Kay Adams      Lloyd Arneach      Marilou Awiakta      Gary Carden      Jo Carson      Angelyn DeBord      Elizabeth Ellis      John Thomas Fowler      Linda Goss      Rosa Hicks      Ted Hicks      Dot Jackson      Charlotte Ross      James "Sparky" Rucker      Betty Smith      Jerry Wolfe      Index

Product details

• Authors: Saundra Gerrell (EDT) Kelley
• Assisted by: Saundra Gerrell Kelley (Editor)
• Publisher: McFarland
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2010
• EAN: 9780786447510
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-4751-0
• Series: Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories