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Negotiating a perilous empowerment

Locklear, Erica Abrams.

Negotiating a perilous empowerment Appalachian women's literacies / [electronic resource] : by Erica Abrams Locklear. - Athens : Ohio University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (254 p. :) ill. ; - Series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Appalachia on our pages: situating Appalachian literacy and literary analysis -- Shaping biscuit dough and rolling out steel: responding to literacy commodification in The dollmaker -- Narrating socialization: Linda Scott Derosier's memoirs -- "Overcoming" backgrounds: competing discourses in The unquiet earth -- Invasion of the mountain teachers: literacy campaigns and conflicts in Lee Smith's work.

9780821443781




Women in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women--Appalachian Region.
Literacy in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--Appalachian Region


Appalachian Region--In literature.


Electronic books.

PS286.A6 / L63 2011

810.9/3522