Writing West Virginia : place, people, and poverty in contemporary literature from the Mountain State /

This book discusses the literary works of several West Virginia writers and how their fiction, characters and novel settings reflect the values of this distinctively Appalachian state. Creasman also discusses varying gender roles and working class West Virginians in fiction by writers such as Breece...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Creasman, Boyd C. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	American literature > West Virginia > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > West Virginia. Social role in literature. Working class in literature. Social values in literature. Appalachian Region > In literature. West Virginia > In literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Three themes and three types of transcendence
Davis Grubb's The night of the hunter
Mary Lee Settle's Beulah quintet
Breece Pancake's short fiction
Denise Giardina's Storming heaven
Irene McKinney's Vivid companion
Ann Pancake's Strange as this weather has been
Jayne Anne Phillips's Lark and termite
Pinckney Benedict's Miracle boy and other stories
Afterword.