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Kunkle, Barbara Lynn. "Appalachia and the Imagination of Empire," American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, December 1997.
This study argues that imperialist discourses dominating Western cultural expression during the last quarter of the nineteenth century led to the cultural construction of the southern Appalachian region of the United States. Colonial discourse/postcolonial theory, as inflected by poststructuralist and feminist thought, offers a new framework for understanding Appalachia’s continuing marginality. Reading such Appalachian writers as John Fox, Mary Murfee, Harry Caudill, and Harriette Arnow from perspectives more typically associated with study of British or European colonialism, this study further suggests that the United States has been an active participant in the imperialist discourses of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century West
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