- 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
James Still
James Still
1906–2001
- Chapter:
- (p.241) James Still
- Source:
- Writing Appalachia
- Author(s):
- Katherine Ledford, Theresa Lloyd
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Many people are surprised to learn that James Still was not a native of eastern Kentucky but of central Alabama, for his name has become synonymous with Appalachian literature. Many of his short stories and poems as well as his novel River of Earth (1940) are set in Knott County, Kentucky, where he worked at the Hindman School and lived for almost all of his adult life. Still’s work delves deeply into the lives of people and communities in one corner of Appalachia but simultaneously speaks to experiences in rural places and small towns everywhere. His writing also explores nature and the individual’s relationship to it....
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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