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Negotiating a perilous empowerment : Appalachian women's literacies / by Locklear, Erica Abrams.(CARDINAL)504002;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-250) and index.Appalachia on our pages: situating Appalachian literacy and literary analysis -- Shaping biscuit dough and rolling out steel: responding to literacy commodification in The dollmaker -- Narrating socialization: Linda Scott Derosier's memoirs -- "Overcoming" backgrounds: competing discourses in The unquiet earth -- Invasion of the mountain teachers: literacy campaigns and conflicts in Lee Smith's work.

Subjects: American literature; Literacy in literature.; Women; Sex role in literature.; Women in literature.; Women.; Womyn.;

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A companion to the study of history / by Stanford, Michael,1923-(CARDINAL)186887;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-299) and index.

Subjects: History;

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Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / by Bloom, Harold.(CARDINAL)138025;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Biographical Sketch of Margaret Atwood -- The Story Behind the Story -- Summary/Analysis -- Descriptive List of Characters -- Critical Views -- Margaret Atwood on the Creation of The Handmaid's Tale -- Barbara Ehrenreich on Feminist Dystopia -- Catharine R. Stimpson on "Atwood Woman" -- Amin Malak on Atwood in the Dystopian Tradition -- Arnold E. Davidson on "Historical Notes" -- Marta Caminero-Santangelo on Resistent Postmodernism -- Glenn Deer on Sanctioned Narrative Authority -- Jamie Dopp on Limited Perspective -- Pamela Cooper on Voyerism and the Filming of The Handmaid's Tale -- Karen Stein on Frame and Discourse -- Lois Feuer on The Handmaid's Tale and 1984.

Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Fantasy fiction, Canadian;

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Insurrection : what the January 6 assault on the Capitol reveals about America and democracy / by Short, John R.,Author(DLC)n 79143409 ;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.A profound analysis of the factors underlying the 2021 invasion of the US Capitol, arriving as the nation looks ahead to another tumultuous presidential election in 2024.   Insurrection offers a profound and incisive analysis of the underlying factors that culminated in the assault on Washington, DC's Capitol Building on that fateful day: January 6th, 2021. Going far beyond mere journalistic accounts, the book delves into structural trends within the United States, providing a broader and deeper context for comprehending the magnitude of the uprising. It explores the crisis of democracy, escalating violence, widening inequality, and the prominence of conspiratorial discourse within American politics. By examining both long-term issues as well as the tumultuous events of 2020, including the pandemic, policing challenges, and the fiercely contested presidential election, this book uncovers the catalysts behind conspiracy theories and the politics of outrage. This compelling narrative is essential reading for all those interested in the contemporary face of the United States.

Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; United States. Capitol Police.; Capitol Riot, Washington, D.C., 2021.; Political violence; Domestic terrorism; Riots; Presidents;

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Bewilderments : reflections on the Book of Numbers / by Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb,author.(CARDINAL)760926;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Flags in the wilderness -- Madness and civilization -- Desire in the wilderness -- 'Sing--now!--to God': Miriam and Moses -- Bewilderments -- Black sun: Moses and Job -- 'From another shore': Moses and Korah -- Heart of stone, heart of flesh -- 'Wherefore could not I pronounce "Amen?"': Balaam and Moses -- To be or not to be: a tale of five sisters -- 'Let me see that good land': the story of a human life."From one of the most acclaimed biblical commentators at work today, the third book in her award-winning series of commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. The Book of Numbers is the narrative of a great failure. What should have been for the Israelites a brief journey from Mount Sinai to the Holy Land becomes a forty-year death march. Both before and after the devastating report of the spies, the narrative centers on the people's desire to return to Egypt, to undo the miraculous work of the Exodus. This view of the wilderness history invites us to a different kind of listening to the many cries of distrust, lament, resentment that issue from the Israelites throughout the Book of Numbers. Is there a way to integrate this narrative of dark murmurings, of obsessive fantasies of return to Egypt, with the celebration of a love-intoxicated wilderness discourse? The question touches not only on the language the Israelites speak but also on the very nature of human utterance. Who are these people? Who are we who listen to them? What effect does the cumulative trauma of slavery, the miracles of Exodus, the revelation at Sinai have on a nation that is beginning to speak? In Bewilderments, Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg posits fascinating answers to these questions through the magnificent literary, scholarly, and psychological analysis of the text that is her trademark"--

Subjects: Bible.;

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Thinking critically about the Kennedy assassination : debunking the myths and conspiracy theories / by Gagné, Michel Jacques,Author(DLC)n 2021049332;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-459) and index.Introduction: Knowledge and Conspiracy Theories -- PART I: MYTH AND COUNTER MYTH: Will the Real JFK Please Stand Up? -- Three Dead in Dallas: The "Official Story" -- The Kennedy Mystique: From Irish Mafia to Camelot -- Case Never Closed: The Evolving Conspiracy Narrative -- PART II: MOTIVE: "Like Caesar, He Is Surrounded by Enemies..." -- The Anti-Civil Rights Movement: Right Wing Racists, Nixon, and the FBI -- "Double Cross! Double Cross!": The Mafia and Jack Ruby -- Spooks and Nukes: The CIA and its War on Cuba -- Dominoes and Dictators: The Pentagon and the War in Vietnam -- "A Damned Murder, Inc.!": LBJ and the Warren Commission -- "I'm Just a Patsy!": Lee Harvey Oswald's Life and Motive -- PART III: MEANS: "It's Gonna Be a Turkey Shoot!" -- The Shooting Gallery: The Motorcade and Dealey Plaza -- The Man in the High Window: The Evidentiary Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald -- Going Ballistic: Of Missing and Magic Bullets -- PART IV: OPPORTUNITY: "We're Through the Looking Glass Here!" -- The Secret Cleaning Service: Did JFK's Bodyguards Cover Up a Conspiracy? -- Of Missing Wounds and Fake X-Rays: Was JFK's Autopsy a Fraud? -- Crop Marks on My Face: Were Lee Oswald's Backyard Photos Doctored? -- America's Bloodiest Home Video: Is the Zapruder Film Authentic? -- Conclusion: Why Conspiracists Rewrite the Past.Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination uses the tools of critical thinking, historical research, and philosophical inquiry to debunk the many myths and conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's shocking and untimely death. As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of the violent public assassination of President John F. Kennedy, over half of all Americans surveyed continue to believe that he was killed by a conspiracy involving multiple assassins. Through its reasoned and detailed analysis of the content and evolution of JFK conspiracy narratives, this book also serves as a comprehensive case study of paranoid reasoning and modern mythmaking. The book's opening chapters lay out the 'official' academic consensus concerning the Kennedy assassination (better known as the 'Lone Gunman Theory') and discuss the origins of popular interpretations of Kennedy's life and death, such as the nostalgic myth of 'Camelot,' the unsympathetic 'Irish Mafia' narrative, and the many conspiracy theories critical of both. Subsequent sections scrutinize the alleged motives of leading conspiracy suspects, the ballistic, forensic, and medical evidence related to JFK's murder, and the most popular 'proofs' of an enduring government cover-up. The book concludes that no clear evidence exists to suggest that JFK was the victim of a conspiracy and ends with a discussion of the causes and consequences of paranoid thinking in contemporary public discourse.

Subjects: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Conspiracies;

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Notes from a colored girl : the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis / by Whitehead, Karsonya Wise,author.(CARDINAL)405982; Davis, Emilie Frances,1838-1899.Diaries.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.A world discovered -- Emilie Davis, 1863 -- A world imagined -- A world created - -Emilie Davis, 1864 -- A world of women -- A world expanded -- Emilie Davis, 1865 -- A world where all things are well."In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one-year-old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis's worldviews and politics, her perceptions of both public and private events, her personal relationships, and her place in Philadelphia's free Black community in the nineteenth century. Although Davis's daily entries are sparse, brief snapshots of her life, Whitehead interprets them in ways that situate Davis in historical and literary contexts that illuminate nineteenth-century black American women's experiences. Whitehead's contribution of edited text and original narrative fills a void in scholarly documentation of women who dwelled in spaces between white elites, black entrepreneurs, and urban dwellers of every race and class. Notes from a Colored Girl is a unique offering to the fields of history and documentary editing as the book includes both a six-chapter historical reconstruction of Davis's life and a full, heavily annotated edition of her Civil War-era pocket diaries. Drawing on scholarly traditions from history, literature, feminist studies, and sociolinguistics, Whitehead investigates Davis's diary both as a complete literary artifact and in terms of her specific daily entries. From a historical perspective, Whitehead re-creates the narrative of Davis's life for those three years and analyzes the black community where she lived and worked. From a literary perspective, Whitehead examines Davis's diary as a socially, racially, and gendered nonfiction text. From a feminist studies perspective, she examines Davis's agency and identity, grounded in theories elaborated by black feminist scholars. And, from linguistic and rhetorical perspectives, she studies Davis's discourse about her interpersonal relationships, her work, and external events in her life in an effort to understand how she used language to construct her social, racial, and gendered identities. Since there are few primary sources written by black women during this time in history, Davis's diary--though ordinary in its content--is rendered extraordinary simply because it has survived to be included in this very small class of resources. Whitehead's extensive analysis illuminates the lives of many through the simple words of one"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects: Biographies.; Diaries.; Davis, Emilie Frances, 1838-1899; African Americans; African Americans;

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Hillsville remembered : public memory, historical silence, and Appalachia's most notorious shoot-out / by Rountree, Travis A.,author.(CARDINAL)874188;

Includes bibliographical references and index."The many untruths": newspaper representations of the 1912 Hillsville, Virginia, courthouse shoot-out -- Performing Hillsville, part one: rhetorical discourse on the Allen ballads -- Performing Hillsville, part two: rhetorical uptake of Frank Levering's shoot-out plays -- "Feelings are still very strong": sites of public memory in Hillsville, Virginia -- "I wish you had not thought to come here": feminine silences, pleas, and community rhetorics from the 1912 Hillsville, Virginia, courthouse shoot-out."'What did happen here there have been so many tales and outright lies told. It has been hard to see through the smoke to see the truth. Now memory, memory is like a loaded pistol it can turn again who's a-holdin' it.' - J. Sidna Allen in 'Thunder in the Hills' by Frank Levering. On March 14, 1912, Hillsville, Virginia, native Floyd Allen (1856-1913) was convicted of three criminal charges: assault, maiming, and the rescue of prisoners in custody. What had begun as a scuffle between Allen's nephews over a young woman ended with him being charged as the guilty party after he allegedly hit a deputy in the head with a pistol. When the jury returned with the verdict, Allen stood up and announced, 'Gentleman, I ain't a-goin.' A gunfight ensued in the crowded courtroom which claimed the lives of the judge, prosecuting attorney, sheriff, a juror, and a witness, and wounded seven other people. The men of the Allen family fled the scene, but detectives from the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency apprehended the men two months later. The state of Virginia put Floyd and Claude Allen to death by electrocution the following spring. Within days of the shoot-out, local and national media sensationalized the event, maligning the Allen men as rough, uncouth residents of impoverished Appalachia. More than a century later, the 'Hillsville Massacre' - as it was dubbed - continues to impact the citizens and communities of the area as local newspapers recirculate the sordid story and give credence to annual public reenactments that continue to negatively impact the national perception of the region. Hillsville Remembered: Public Memory, Historical Silence, and Appalachia's Most Notorious Shoot-Out is the first book-length scholarly review of the Hillsville Massacre. This comprehensive study examines a variety of sources written about and inspired by the event and casts light on how the incident helped reinforce the nation's conception of the region through depictions of this sensational moment in history. Author Travis A. Rountree uses rhetorical analyses to trace and reflect on the texts and contexts surrounding the events that have been reported, preserved, interpreted, and reinterpreted with different voices in various formats. In all, this book provides an extensive analysis of the Hillsville Massacre and reveals new understandings of the production of memories and stories that evolved from the event"--

Subjects: Allen family.; Allen, Floyd, 1857-1913.; Gunfights; Gunfights; Trials (Assault and battery); Collective memory; Collective memory; Appalachians (People); Narration (Rhetoric);

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