Appalachia north : a memoir /
Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia, the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite, not quite "regular&q...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia, the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite, not quite "regular" America and not-quite Appalachia. Ferrence's sense of geographic ambiguity is compounded when he learns that his birthplace in western Pennsylvania is technically not a mountain but, instead, a dissected plateau shaped by the slow, deep cuts of erosion. That discovery is followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumor, setting Ferrence on a journey that is part memoir, part exploration of geology and place. Appalachia North is an investigation of how the labels of Appalachia have been drawn and written, and also a reckoning with how a body always in recovery can, like a region viewed always as a site of extraction, find new territories of growth. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 274 pages : maps ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-274). |
| ISBN: | 9781946684707 1946684708 |