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Southern Appalachian Storytellers
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Author : Saundra Gerrell Kelley
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Southern Appalachian Storytellers written by Saundra Gerrell Kelley and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Social Science categories.
To be from Appalachia—to be at home there and to love it passionately—informs the narratives of each of the sixteen storytellers featured in this work. Their stories are rich in the lore of the past, deeply influenced by family, especially their grandparents, and the ancient mountains they saw every day of their lives as they were growing up.
Foxfire Story
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Author : Foxfire Fund Inc
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2020-04-28
Foxfire Story written by Foxfire Fund Inc and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-28 with Social Science categories.
Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for countless readers all around the world. In Foxfire Story, folklorist (and Foxfire director) T.J. Smith collects some of his favorite stories from the archives to illuminate the oral traditions that have been part of the culture of the mountains for centuries. Here are instances of mountain speech, proverbs and sayings, legends, folktales, anecdotes, songs, and pranks and jests, along with ghost tales and accounts of folk belief, as well as stories from half a dozen of the region’s finest storytellers. Through these examples, Smith examines the role storytelling plays in the Southern Appalachian community, identifying the rich traditions that can be found in the region and exploring how they convey a sense of place—and of identity.
My Lucky Day
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Author : Donald Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
My Lucky Day written by Donald Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Folk literature categories.
Southern Jack Tales
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Author : Donald Davis
language : en
Publisher: august house
Release Date : 1997
Southern Jack Tales written by Donald Davis and has been published by august house this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
A collection of thirteen Jack tales from the southern Appalachian Mountains, including "The Time Jack Told a Big Tale," "The Time Jack Cured the Doctor," and "The Time Jack Stole the Cows."
A Magical Country
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Author : James Eric Leary
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
A Magical Country written by James Eric Leary and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fairy tales categories.
Fairy tales and other forms of fantastic literature have fascinated children and adults for generations. The scholarship on these types of works indicate that many find their folkloric origins in oral storytelling, and those roots may be quite ancient. However, some of the earliest examples of recorded literature capture stories of magic and fantasy. The interplay between the oral and literary form remains a significant area of study and development for folk literature, and new artistic productions, termed variants in the scholarship, continue to appear frequently in contemporary American culture. The criticism and creative work presented here add to the outpouring of fairy tale variants and southern literature that have been so prevalent in the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The dissertation is divided into two main sections. Section I provides scholarly discussion on the history of fantastic literature, the history of scholarship on fairy tales, the value of production of fairy tale and related films in contemporary society, and in depth critical discussions of the sources and variants used to develop the body of fiction that follows. Section II includes the collection of short fiction titled A Magical Country: Stories from Appalachia. This collection follows several traditions of the literary collection of oral stories, including a frame tale and rotating narrators. Five different storytellers share oral stories with each other and an extended audience in a rural Appalachian general store. The store serves as a focal point for the community where information, rumors, and successes are disseminated. Each of the five stories in the collection blends elements from fairy tales and Appalachian oral stories currently in circulation. All together, the collection of stories illustrate the concerns and perspectives of rural, southern Appalachia and the encroachment of contemporary life and problems from what is perceived as the outside world which is urban life and city dwellers.
Cultural Intermarriage In Southern Appalachia
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Author : Katerina Prajznerova
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-03-01
Cultural Intermarriage In Southern Appalachia written by Katerina Prajznerova and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examining four of Lee Smith's mountain novels from the point of view of cultural anthropology, this study show that fragments of the Cherokee heritage resonate in her work. These elements include connections with the Cherokee beliefs regarding medicinal plants and spirit animals, Cherokee stories about the Daughter of the Sun, the corn Woman, the Spear Finger, the Raven Mocker, the Little People and the booger men; the Cherokee concept of witchcraft; and the social position of Cherokee women.
Daughters Of The Appalachians
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Author : Linda Goodman
language : en
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Release Date : 1999
Daughters Of The Appalachians written by Linda Goodman and has been published by The Overmountain Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author introduces six unique women, each of whom offers a rare glimpse of a culture that is fast fading away. As you share their joys and sorrows, these women will touch your soul and live in your heart.
Beech Mountain Man
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Author : Ronda Lee Hicks
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2009
Beech Mountain Man written by Ronda Lee Hicks and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Thomas Burton's edition of what amounts to an autobiography of Ronda Lee Hicks-fighter, drinker, womanizer, and storyteller-represents a wiff of late-night honky-tonk whiskey and tobacco in its realism. . . . Hicks is a talented raconteur, whose gifts are well displayed in Burton's careful editing." --Erika Brady, Western Kentucky University Ronda Lee Hicks, as the traditional song goes, is "a man you don't meet every day." Hailing from the Beech Mountain area of western North Carolina, Ronda is the offspring of the two families of great storytellers who are largely responsible for the area's strong storytelling tradition of the International Wonder Tales of Jack. And his late cousin Ray Hicks was the famed "keeper" of the International Wonder Tales of Jack that have proven so popular in the Appalachian region for more than two centuries. Like Ray, Ronda is a gifted storyteller, but not of Jack Tales. Even so, Ronda's stories about himself, his family, friends, and acquaintances are wonder tales no less. With great candor and sometimes jarring humor, Hicks recounts his life's highs and lows. These events, ranging from drunken debauchery to brutality, are often shocking. He has had many close encounters with "the law" and was twice sent to prison. His relationships with women, including his two wives, have been tumultuous at best. This is the story of a violent, sometimes dissolute life--one that sounds more like it was lived in the mountains a hundred years ago than in contemporary Appalachia. Embedded in all of Ronda's stories are numerous details of mountain life, work, entertainment, behavior, beliefs, values, and codes. Thus, through Ronda's memoirs and interviews with noted Appalachian scholar Thomas Burton, readers will not only meet a truly singular individual but will also learn of many obscure features of southern Appalachian mountain culture, including its darker aspects. At the very least, the reader will wonder how Ronda Hicks lived to tell his fascinating tales at all. Thomas Burton is professor emeritus of English at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of Serpent-Handling Believers and The Serpent and the Spirit: Glenn Summerford's Story. "Together, Hicks, the storyteller, and the author give the reader an authentic view of Appalachian life, one that often disputes the beauty of the Blue Ridge and the quaintness of old-fashioned ways that tourists find endearing." --H-Net Reviews
Ray Hicks And The Jack Tales
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Author : Christine Pavesic
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2005
Ray Hicks And The Jack Tales written by Christine Pavesic and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
The Jack Tales derive from a Western European narrative cycle and are the oldest folktales to survive in the North American oral tradition. In the twenty-first century, the Jack Tales continue to retain their place at the forefront of Western Oral Tradition. Over the centuries the tales of Jack and his adventures have tended to absorb the interests and values of the culture in which they are operating. Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales: A Study of Appalachian History, Culture, and Philosophy, assesses folktales in the oral tradition and examines both the history and the cultural impact of them. It includes a survey of existing scholarship concerning orality and the European origins of the Jack Tales and then focuses upon a prominent Appalachian native recorder of the tales, Ray Hicks. His enthusiasm and skill as a storyteller has allowed Hicks to bring an ancient body of oral literature to all types of audiences. The way that Hicks has enhanced the Jack Tales through his manner of storytelling-the nature of his performance, his voice and mimicry, the stimulus of the audience and his response-is explored along with the setting of these tales-the Appalachian mountains.
Ray Hicks
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Author : Robert Isbell
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2001
Ray Hicks written by Robert Isbell and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where
