The Anguish of Displacement

The Anguish of Displacement
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 0813926289
ISBN-13 : 9780813926285
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Book Synopsis The Anguish of Displacement by : Katrina M. Powell

Download or read book The Anguish of Displacement written by Katrina M. Powell and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a counternarrative to Shenandoah National Park official history, using 300 letters in park archives written by families who were displaced upon the creation of the national park, authorized by Congress in 1926. Using this significant, newly catalogued corpus of letters, Powell reveals the many facets of the poor, disadvantaged writers, who took up letter writing to address the powerful park bureaucracy, despite their educational disadvantages. They wrote to resist the rhetorics used to describe them and created their own representations through their letters.


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