Native Soil – Reading and Writing About Home Dawn Johnson Mitchell
“ I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.” William Faulkner, Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner
Place in Southern Writing Much cultural diversity in Southern writing Writers touched by the Appalachian region seek to create a true sense of this place in their work Through intricate description of physical landscapes, recreation of dialect, and stark, yet realistic portrayals these authors take us deep into the place that is the South, that is our home.
Native Soil – Reading and Writing About Home Discussion of “place” and “home” as themes in Southern writing Reading Like a Writer with Rash Exploration of Ray’s “close study” methods using Ron Rash’s poetry as anchor texts
Place in Southern Writing Much cultural diversity in Southern writing Writers touched by the Appalachian region seek to create a true sense of this place in their work Through intricate description of physical landscapes, recreation of dialect, and stark, yet realistic portrayals these authors take us deep into the place that is the South, that is our home.
Native Soil – Reading and Writing About Home Amy Greene - Bloodroot Pages 6-8 – “Byrdie” – Chickweed Holler Silas House – The Coal Tattoo Pages 101 – 108
Native Soil – Reading and Writing About Home Appalachian Poetry Close Study Price Lake: 1961, The Cortland Review Ancestral Home: Jane Hicks from Blood and Bone Remember Peopling: Dana Wildsmith from One Good Hand Mill Village, Eureka Mill
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” -T.S. Eliot “Little Gidding,” From Four Quartets
Native Soil – Reading and Writing About Home Southern Writers to Read Lee Smith Silas House Rick Bragg Ron Rash Charles Frazier Jane Hicks Dana Wildsmith
"One place understood helps us understand all places better" — Eudora Welty