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Creative Energy in James Still's "Mrs. Razor"

Creative Energy in James Still's "Mrs. Razor" Creative Energy in James Still's "Mrs. Razor" Joyce A. Hancock Appalachian Heritage, Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 1980, pp. 38-46 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1980.0044 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441740/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:20 GMT from JHU Libraries Creative Energy in James Still's "Mrs. Razor" by Joyce A. Hancock "The only image of Appalachia and Appalachian people that can sustain us is the image that Appalachians themselves create." —Jim Wayne Miller* The narrator of James Still's story "Mrs. Razor" tells about a problem at home. Things just aren't right when the story begins. The family is eating supper too early, while "the day still held and the chickens had not yet gone to roost in the gilly trees." And everyone is all upset: sister Elvy is "crying behind the stove, her throat was raw with sobbing." The narrator and his brother are at table, but they are not eating their bread, Mother and Father are at odds. Only the fire in the stove behaves normally at this uneasy mealtime: "The firebox of the Cincinnati stove winked, the iron flowers of the oven throbbed with heat." Things are all http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Creative Energy in James Still's "Mrs. Razor"

Appalachian Review , Volume 8 (2) – Jan 8, 2014

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Creative Energy in James Still's "Mrs. Razor" Joyce A. Hancock Appalachian Heritage, Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 1980, pp. 38-46 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1980.0044 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441740/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:20 GMT from JHU Libraries Creative Energy in James Still's "Mrs. Razor" by Joyce A. Hancock "The only image of Appalachia and Appalachian people that can sustain us is the image that Appalachians themselves create." —Jim Wayne Miller* The narrator of James Still's story "Mrs. Razor" tells about a problem at home. Things just aren't right when the story begins. The family is eating supper too early, while "the day still held and the chickens had not yet gone to roost in the gilly trees." And everyone is all upset: sister Elvy is "crying behind the stove, her throat was raw with sobbing." The narrator and his brother are at table, but they are not eating their bread, Mother and Father are at odds. Only the fire in the stove behaves normally at this uneasy mealtime: "The firebox of the Cincinnati stove winked, the iron flowers of the oven throbbed with heat." Things are all

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Published: Jan 8, 2014

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