The Land of Saddle-bags (eBook)

A Study of the Mountain People of Appalachia

James Watt Raine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
330 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
9780813188539 (ISBN)

Infos

This charming account of life in Appalachia at the turn of the century is one of the three most important books from the early twentieth century that, as Dwight Billings writes in his foreword, have "e;had a profound and lasting impact on how we think about Appalachia and, indeed, on the fact that we commonly believe that such a place and people can be readily identified."e; Originally published in 1924, it was advertised as a "e;racy book, full of the thrill of mountain adventure and the delicious humor of vigorously human people."e; James Watt Raine provides eyewitness accounts of mountain speech and folksinging, education, religion, community, politics, and farming. In a conscious effort to dispel the negative stereotype of the drunken, slothful, gun-toting hillbilly prone to violence, Raine presents positive examples from his own experiences among the region's native inhabitants.

Autor

James Wait Raine was professor of English literature and later head of the English and Drama departments at Berea College from 1906 until his retirement in 1939.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2021
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Appalachian culture • appalachian documentary writing • appalachian history • appalachian sociology • everyday life in appalachia 1920s • myth of appalachia • social history of appalachia
• ISBN-13: 9780813188539 / 9780813188539