The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature

by Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt and Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt

Book Overview

Contemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development. Effie Waller Smith, an African American woman writing of her love for the Appalachian mountains, wove discussions of women's rights, racial tension, and cultural difference into her Appalachian poetry. Grace MacGowan Cooke participated in avant-garde...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821415107
• ISBN13: 9780821415108
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"