{"product_id":"back-talk-from-appalachia-confronting-stereotypes-9780813190013","title":"Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dwight B. Billings | Gurney Norman | Katherine Ledford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle once again adopted these stereotypes, recasting the American myth as a story of repeated failure and poverty--the failure of the American spirit and the poverty of the American soul. Dismayed by national critics' lack of attention to the negative depictions of mountain people in the\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kentucky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591088619671,"sku":"9780813190013","price":3157.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813190013.webp?v=1774971563","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/back-talk-from-appalachia-confronting-stereotypes-9780813190013","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}