- 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
Denise Giardina
Denise Giardina
1951–
- Chapter:
- (p.713) Denise Giardina
- Source:
- Writing Appalachia
- Author(s):
- Katherine Ledford, Theresa Lloyd
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
Born in Bluefield, West Virginia, Denise Giardina experienced the uncertainties of life in a coal camp firsthand. Her grandfather and two uncles were coal miners, her father was a bookkeeper for the coal company, and her mother was a nurse. When Giardina was twelve, her father was laid off and the family moved to Charleston, West Virginia. After graduating from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1973, Giardina earned a master’s of divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1979 and taught at West Virginia State University. She is an activist for environmental and social justice, an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church, and a former third-party candidate for governor of West Virginia....
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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