Given Ground by Ann Pancake
Departing from Appalachia's 150-year-old literary legacy of formula and caricature, West Virginia native Ann Pancake uses the texture of language, an intense attention to place, and complexity of characterization to recreate the region -- its tragic history and fragile culture, the interior landscapes of its people, and their deep rootedness in a threatened land. Her characters, already marginalized economically and socially, confront what many perceive as an invading outside culture, enduring and at times transcending the loss of their place, both literally and figuratively. Their stories undermine the assumption that just because people don't articulate what happens inside them, nothing much is happening at all.
A native of Romney, West Virginia, Ann Pancake earned a BA in English from West Virginia University, an MA in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Washington. Ann Pancake has lived in Japan, American Samoa, and Thailand, where she taught English as a Second Language. Pancake currently teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Seattle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781584651185 |
| ISBN 10 | 1584651180 |
| Title | Given Ground |
| Author | Ann Pancake |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University Press of New England |
| Year published | 2001-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 152 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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