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Mountain Fatalism in Wiley Cash’s: A Land More Kind Than Home

Mountain Fatalism in Wiley Cash’s: A Land More Kind Than Home faTalISm IN WIlEy CaSh'S A Land More Kind Than Home eRicA ABRAmS lOckleAR mOuNTaIN In 2003 Wiley Cash had the initial idea for the storyline of his debut novel, A Land More Kind Than Home, when his "professor, Reggie Scott Young, brought in a news story about a young African American boy with autism who'd been smothered during a healing service on Chicago's South Side." Cash elaborates that he "wanted to tell the story, but [he'd] never been to Chicago and knew [he] couldn't represent the experience of those living on the South Side.1 Instead, Cash set the novel in Madison County, a region in Western North Carolina that has long been associated with both positive and negative stereotypes about Appalachia. On the positive side, those interested in traditional ballads often connect the county with the hit movie Songcatcher, since both Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp collected ballads in the area in the nineteen-teens. Photographers Rob Amberg and Tim Barnwell have also documented the beauty of the landscape and its people in their image collections, while musicians including Laura Boosinger and Sheila Kay Adams have brought major recognition to the area for its performance arts. Adams, for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Mountain Fatalism in Wiley Cash’s: A Land More Kind Than Home

Appalachian Review , Volume 42 (3) – Nov 23, 2014

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Abstract

faTalISm IN WIlEy CaSh'S A Land More Kind Than Home eRicA ABRAmS lOckleAR mOuNTaIN In 2003 Wiley Cash had the initial idea for the storyline of his debut novel, A Land More Kind Than Home, when his "professor, Reggie Scott Young, brought in a news story about a young African American boy with autism who'd been smothered during a healing service on Chicago's South Side." Cash elaborates that he "wanted to tell the story, but [he'd] never been to Chicago and knew [he] couldn't represent the experience of those living on the South Side.1 Instead, Cash set the novel in Madison County, a region in Western North Carolina that has long been associated with both positive and negative stereotypes about Appalachia. On the positive side, those interested in traditional ballads often connect the county with the hit movie Songcatcher, since both Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil Sharp collected ballads in the area in the nineteen-teens. Photographers Rob Amberg and Tim Barnwell have also documented the beauty of the landscape and its people in their image collections, while musicians including Laura Boosinger and Sheila Kay Adams have brought major recognition to the area for its performance arts. Adams, for

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Nov 23, 2014

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