As a regional eco-fiction, Ron Rash’s 2008 novel Serena dramatizes the interference of outside forces in an Appalachian ecosystem during the Great Depression. The fictional Boston Lumber Company spoils the land in order to make profit whereas state official Secretary Albright and preservationist Horace Kephart want to preserve it by creating a national park. The consequences of this dual invasion are disastrous: destruction of wildlife, human displacement, misery and murder. Contemporary critics tend to see Rash either as a mere objective witness to Appalachia’s history or as a voice for the Appalachian minority, the hillbillies. This study aims to show how the actors of this story may they be intradiegetic or extradiegetic — the landscape,...
To read the work of Ron Rash is to run one’s hands across the scars, wounds, and callouses of the Ap...
In this essay, I investigate how the historic and current economic structures operating in Appalachi...
Ron Rash’s The Cove (2012) is perhaps the most sonorous of his novels; in it, Rash pays special atte...
As a regional eco-fiction, Ron Rash’s 2008 novel Serena dramatizes the interference of outside force...
As a work of literary naturalism, Ron Rash’s Serena (2008) portrays the challenges of the Appalachia...
Ron Rash, through Serena, captures the often misunderstood complex nature of the Appalachian people ...
Ron Rash flourishes in his depictions of the Southern Appalachian region and its people, both throug...
I will address the use of gender roles in Ron Rash\u27s Serena, examining closely the interplay betw...
In his most successful novel, Serena (2008), Ron Rash richly sets the scene in Western North Carolin...
While the titular character of Serena captures the imagination of the novel’s other characters and r...
Abstract: This paper considers how geographical displacement leads to painful linguistic unlinking i...
In Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space, Stacy Alaimo asserts, “the very consti...
Ron Rash’s Serena and Ann Pancake’s Strange as This Weather Has Been are two contemporary Appalachia...
International audienceArguing for the need to re-enchant the world, that is, to sing in tune with th...
This thesis analyzes Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer and Flight Behavior through an ecofeminist...
To read the work of Ron Rash is to run one’s hands across the scars, wounds, and callouses of the Ap...
In this essay, I investigate how the historic and current economic structures operating in Appalachi...
Ron Rash’s The Cove (2012) is perhaps the most sonorous of his novels; in it, Rash pays special atte...
As a regional eco-fiction, Ron Rash’s 2008 novel Serena dramatizes the interference of outside force...
As a work of literary naturalism, Ron Rash’s Serena (2008) portrays the challenges of the Appalachia...
Ron Rash, through Serena, captures the often misunderstood complex nature of the Appalachian people ...
Ron Rash flourishes in his depictions of the Southern Appalachian region and its people, both throug...
I will address the use of gender roles in Ron Rash\u27s Serena, examining closely the interplay betw...
In his most successful novel, Serena (2008), Ron Rash richly sets the scene in Western North Carolin...
While the titular character of Serena captures the imagination of the novel’s other characters and r...
Abstract: This paper considers how geographical displacement leads to painful linguistic unlinking i...
In Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space, Stacy Alaimo asserts, “the very consti...
Ron Rash’s Serena and Ann Pancake’s Strange as This Weather Has Been are two contemporary Appalachia...
International audienceArguing for the need to re-enchant the world, that is, to sing in tune with th...
This thesis analyzes Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer and Flight Behavior through an ecofeminist...
To read the work of Ron Rash is to run one’s hands across the scars, wounds, and callouses of the Ap...
In this essay, I investigate how the historic and current economic structures operating in Appalachi...
Ron Rash’s The Cove (2012) is perhaps the most sonorous of his novels; in it, Rash pays special atte...