Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 New Directions -- 2 Appalachian Literature at Home in This World -- 3 Jesse Stuart and James Still -- 4 The Changing Poetic Canon -- 5 James Still's Poetry -- 6 On Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker -- 7 The Christian and the Classic in The Dollmaker -- 8 Social Criticism in the Works of Wilma Dykeman -- 9 Casting a Long Shadow -- 10 O Beulah Land -- 11 The Beulah/Canona Connection -- 12 The Appalachian Homeplace as Oneiric House in Jim Wayne Miller's The Mountains Have Come Closer -- 13 The Mechanical Metaphor -- 14 Kin and Kindness in Gurney Norman's Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories -- 15 "The Primal Ground of Life" -- 16 John Ehle and Appalachian Fiction -- 17 The Power of Language in Lee Smith's Oral History -- 18 A New, Authoritative Voice -- 19 "Where's Love?" -- 20 Family Journeys in Jo Carson's Daytrips -- 21 Points of Kinship -- 22 Fred Chappell's Urn of Memory -- 23 Coming Out from Under Calvinism -- 24 Robert Morgan's Mountain Voice and Lucid Prose -- 25 Class and Identity in Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven -- 26 Cormac McCarthy -- 27 Claiming a Literary Space -- 28 Nature-Loving Souls and Appalachian Mountains -- 29 The Wolves of Ægypt -- Notes on Authors -- Contributors -- Index.