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Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia (review)

Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia (review) battle deserve the focus: What was the battle's ultimate significance? What is its lasting legacy? On the other side are those who feel that Civil War history should describe in loving detail the battle strategies, troop placement, and the broad and bloody machinations of war, since these factors determine the outcome of the particular battle. Ultimately, Hafendorfer's book represents the second philosophy. Readers who believe that the intricacies of battle should be the focus will find his book both interesting and informative, for it is a book about a battle that has too long lingered and waited patiently for its scribe. --Marshall Myers Sandra Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson, eds. Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. 673 pages. Cloth. $45.00. The introduction to Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia, begins with a quote by West Virginia poet Irene McKinney: "I'm a hillbilly, a woman, and a poet, and I understood early on that nobody was going to listen to anything I had to say anyway, so I might as well say what I want to" (1). The editors of Listen Here, Sandra Ballard, editor of Appalachian other magazines, wanted to make http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia (review)

Appalachian Review , Volume 32 (1) – Jan 8, 2004

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battle deserve the focus: What was the battle's ultimate significance? What is its lasting legacy? On the other side are those who feel that Civil War history should describe in loving detail the battle strategies, troop placement, and the broad and bloody machinations of war, since these factors determine the outcome of the particular battle. Ultimately, Hafendorfer's book represents the second philosophy. Readers who believe that the intricacies of battle should be the focus will find his book both interesting and informative, for it is a book about a battle that has too long lingered and waited patiently for its scribe. --Marshall Myers Sandra Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson, eds. Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. 673 pages. Cloth. $45.00. The introduction to Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia, begins with a quote by West Virginia poet Irene McKinney: "I'm a hillbilly, a woman, and a poet, and I understood early on that nobody was going to listen to anything I had to say anyway, so I might as well say what I want to" (1). The editors of Listen Here, Sandra Ballard, editor of Appalachian other magazines, wanted to make

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2004

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