Bloodroot
reflections on place by Appalachian women writers
by Joyce Dyer
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Bloodroot is a perennial wildflower, native to the Appalachian region, that bears a single white flower in early spring. Its root contains a poisonous alkaloid, yet the reddish sap it exudes possesses healing powers. Could any image be more perfect for the mix of pain and pleasure that informs the memoirs of the women in this volume?
Over the past 150 years, some of the most beautiful and powerful voices in American letters have emerged from this hardscrabble region. In Bloodroot thirty-five of these voices describe Appalachia with poignancy, eloquence, forthrightness, and humor.
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History and criticism, Theory, Intellectual life, Regionalism in literature, American literature, American Authors, Homes and haunts, Women authors, Women and literature, In literature, Women, Southern states, in literature, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Authors, american, American literature, women authors, Appalachian region, History, American Women authors, BiographyTimes
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Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
2013, University Press of Kentucky
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Bloodroot: Reflections on Place by Appalachian Women Writers
2013, University Press of Kentucky
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Bloodroot: reflections on place by Appalachian women writers
1998, University Press of Kentucky
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0813120594 9780813120591
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-302).
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