The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric
Amanda E. Hayes
Published 2018
228 pages
The most popular regional identity books
These books are about peoples with their own language or culture inside a larger country. Basques, Catalans, Bretons, Corsicans, Scots and many others appear, with stories of land, language and the wish to be recognized. Novels and histories here are full of local color and stubborn pride.
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Backwoods America
Charles Morrow Wilson
Published 2007
209 pages
My Appalachian Heritage Yes, I'm a Hillbilly
Dorlous Schatz Barth
Published 1996
207 pages
Sergeant York And His People
Sam K. Cowan
2003 · 2016 edition
146 pages
American Hollow
Rory Kennedy, Steve Lehman, Mark Bailey, Umbrage Editions
Published 1999
117 pages
Voices Worth the Listening Three Women of Appalachia
Thomas G. Burton
2020 · 2024 edition
113 pages
Hillbillyland What the Movies Did to the Mountains and what the Mountains Did to the Movies
Jerry Wayne Williamson
Published 1995
325 pages
Stories I Lived to Tell An Appalachian Memoir
Gary Carden, Neal Hutcheson
Published 2024
152 pages
Immaculate Immigrant
Meg Garduño
Published 2010
136 pages
Appalachian Lives
Shelby Lee Adams
Published 2003
98 pages
Rereading Appalachia Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance
Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Kim Donehower
2015 · 2017 edition
238 pages
Our Southern Highlanders
Horace Kephart, George Ellison
2002 · 2025 edition
192 pages
Yesterday's People
Jack E. Weller
Published 1995
184 pages
The Southern Mountaineers
Samuel Tyndale Wilson
2005 · 2018 edition
260 pages
Lower Brushy Revisited A Loving Portrait of a Gentler Time and Place
Janive Lowe Underwood
Published 2009
200 pages
The Anguish of Displacement The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park
Katrina M. Powell
Published 2007
212 pages
These Were My Hills
Marie Walston
1972 · 1974 edition
144 pages
A Shattered Nation
Anne Sarah Rubin
2007 · 2012 edition
324 pages
Back Talk from Appalachia
Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, Katherine Ledford
2000 · 2013 edition
368 pages
Migration, Accommodation and Language Change
Bridget L. Anderson
Published 2008
214 pages
Y'all Means All
Z. Zane McNeill
Published 2022
200 pages
Down Home, Downtown Urban Appalachians Today
Phillip J. Obermiller
Published 1996
208 pages
Hill Folks
Brooks Blevins
2002 · 2003 edition
360 pages
The Land of Saddle-bags
James Watt Raine, Dwight B. Billings
Published 2014
330 pages