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First-person narratives of refugees, immigrants, and generations-long residents in Appalachia, highlighting how spaces of belonging, home, and connection are created in the face of displacement, extraction, and structural oppression.
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Appalachia has been a place of movement and migration-for individuals, families, and entire communities-for centuries.
Beginning Againbrings together twelve narratives of refugees, migrants, and generations-long residents that explore complex journeys…
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Katrina M. Powell
Following Congress’s approval of the creation of Shenandoah National Park in 1926, displaced Virginia mountain families wrote to US government officials requesting various services, property, and harvested crops. The collection…
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In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending specifically to the rhetorical…
Supplementing the letters are introductory text, photographs, annotation, and oral histories that further document the lives of these individuals.
Performing Auto/biography: Narrating a Life as Activism analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed in five authors’ auto/biographical texts, examining their representations of identities and the public implications of writing individual identity.
