Table of Contents:
  • 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.