- Title Pages
- A Note on the Selection of Texts
- Introduction
-
Part I Early Appalachian Literature - Cherokee Narratives
- Thomas Jefferson
- William Bartram
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Elias Boudinot (Gallegina “Buck” Watie)
- Anne Newport Royall
- The Crockett Almanac
-
Part II Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction - Elihu Embree
- Martin Robison Delany
- James Adams
- Fannie A. Fain
- Rebecca Harding Davis
- Booker T. Washington
-
Part III Regionalism, Local Color, and the Settlement Schools - George Washington Harris
- Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock)
- William Goodell Frost
- John Fox Jr.
- Effie Waller Smith
- Emma Bell Miles
- Olive Dame Campbell
- Lucy Furman
- Horace Kephart
- Frances Louisa Goodrich
-
Part IV Prose, Poetry, and Songs of Labor - Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
- Members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners (Dreiser Committee)
- Protest Songs from the Textile Mills and Coalfields
- Muriel Rukeyser
- Don West
- Thomas Bell
-
Part V Appalachian Folklore - A Constellation of Folk Narratives
- A Constellation of Folk Songs
-
Part VI Modernism in Appalachian Literature - Thomas Wolfe
- Jesse Stuart
- James Still
- Anne Wetzell Armstrong
- Louise McNeill
- Mildred Haun
- Harriette Simpson Arnow
- Jonathan Williams
- James Wright
- Wilma Dykeman
-
Part VII The Appalachian Renaissance - Marilou Awiakta
- Nikki Giovanni
- Fred Chappell
- Irene McKinney
- Don Johnson
- Robert Morgan
- Jeff Daniel Marion
- Lynn Powell
- Jim Wayne Miller
- Kathryn Stripling Byer
- Charles Wright
- Gurney Norman
- Lisa Alther
- Jayne Anne Phillips
- Lee Smith
- John Edgar Wideman
- Breece D’J Pancake
- Fred Chappell
- George Ella Lyon
- Harvey Broome
- Harry Caudill
- Verna Mae Slone
- Loyal Jones
- Harry Middleton
- Jason Miller
- August Wilson
- Junebug Productions and Roadside Theater
- Jo Carson
-
Part VIII Twenty-First-Century Appalachian Literature - Maggie Anderson
- Frank X Walker
- Pauletta Hansel
- Ron Rash
- Diane Gilliam Fisher
- Darnell Arnoult
- doris davenport
- Anne Shelby
- Maurice Manning
- Jesse Graves
- Ricardo Nazario y Colón
- Melissa Range
- Rose McLarney
- Crystal Wilkinson
- Dorothy Allison
- Charles Frazier
- Ann Pancake
- Ron Rash
- Pamela Duncan
- Blake M. Hausman
- Silas House
- Tony Earley
- Robert Gipe
- Wiley Cash
- Mark Powell
- Sandor Ellix Katz
- Wendell Berry
- Jeff Mann
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Shannon Hayes
- Dana Wildsmith
- Karen Salyer McElmurray
- bell hooks
- Denise Giardina
- Higher Ground Project
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography and Permissions
- Author and Title Index
Jesse Stuart
Jesse Stuart
1906–1984
- Chapter:
- (p.232) Jesse Stuart
- Source:
- Writing Appalachia
- Author(s):
- Katherine Ledford, Theresa Lloyd
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Jesse Stuart was born in northeastern Kentucky’s Greenup County. His parents, hard-working tenant farmers, instilled in him and his four siblings a drive for education, a poignant emphasis given his father’s illiteracy and his mother’s second-grade education. Stuart graduated from Lincoln Memorial University with a BA in 1929, making friends while there with Don West and James Still. At Vanderbilt University, where he attended graduate school in 1931–1932, Stuart studied with influential southern writers and critics such as Donald Davidson, who also taught Appalachian authors Mildred Haun and Jim Wayne Miller. After graduate school, Stuart returned to Greenup to work as an educator and author....
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- Title Pages
- A Note on the Selection of Texts
- Introduction
-
Part I Early Appalachian Literature - Cherokee Narratives
- Thomas Jefferson
- William Bartram
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Elias Boudinot (Gallegina “Buck” Watie)
- Anne Newport Royall
- The Crockett Almanac
-
Part II Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction - Elihu Embree
- Martin Robison Delany
- James Adams
- Fannie A. Fain
- Rebecca Harding Davis
- Booker T. Washington
-
Part III Regionalism, Local Color, and the Settlement Schools - George Washington Harris
- Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock)
- William Goodell Frost
- John Fox Jr.
- Effie Waller Smith
- Emma Bell Miles
- Olive Dame Campbell
- Lucy Furman
- Horace Kephart
- Frances Louisa Goodrich
-
Part IV Prose, Poetry, and Songs of Labor - Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
- Members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners (Dreiser Committee)
- Protest Songs from the Textile Mills and Coalfields
- Muriel Rukeyser
- Don West
- Thomas Bell
-
Part V Appalachian Folklore - A Constellation of Folk Narratives
- A Constellation of Folk Songs
-
Part VI Modernism in Appalachian Literature - Thomas Wolfe
- Jesse Stuart
- James Still
- Anne Wetzell Armstrong
- Louise McNeill
- Mildred Haun
- Harriette Simpson Arnow
- Jonathan Williams
- James Wright
- Wilma Dykeman
-
Part VII The Appalachian Renaissance - Marilou Awiakta
- Nikki Giovanni
- Fred Chappell
- Irene McKinney
- Don Johnson
- Robert Morgan
- Jeff Daniel Marion
- Lynn Powell
- Jim Wayne Miller
- Kathryn Stripling Byer
- Charles Wright
- Gurney Norman
- Lisa Alther
- Jayne Anne Phillips
- Lee Smith
- John Edgar Wideman
- Breece D’J Pancake
- Fred Chappell
- George Ella Lyon
- Harvey Broome
- Harry Caudill
- Verna Mae Slone
- Loyal Jones
- Harry Middleton
- Jason Miller
- August Wilson
- Junebug Productions and Roadside Theater
- Jo Carson
-
Part VIII Twenty-First-Century Appalachian Literature - Maggie Anderson
- Frank X Walker
- Pauletta Hansel
- Ron Rash
- Diane Gilliam Fisher
- Darnell Arnoult
- doris davenport
- Anne Shelby
- Maurice Manning
- Jesse Graves
- Ricardo Nazario y Colón
- Melissa Range
- Rose McLarney
- Crystal Wilkinson
- Dorothy Allison
- Charles Frazier
- Ann Pancake
- Ron Rash
- Pamela Duncan
- Blake M. Hausman
- Silas House
- Tony Earley
- Robert Gipe
- Wiley Cash
- Mark Powell
- Sandor Ellix Katz
- Wendell Berry
- Jeff Mann
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Shannon Hayes
- Dana Wildsmith
- Karen Salyer McElmurray
- bell hooks
- Denise Giardina
- Higher Ground Project
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography and Permissions
- Author and Title Index