The Silent Appalachian
Wordless Mountaineers in Fiction, Film and Television| By: | Vicki Sigmon Collins |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9781476667683 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781476627540 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2017 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to be, some choose not to speak or are silenced by grief, trauma or fear. Others mutter monosyllables, stutter, grunt and point, speak in tongues or idiosyncratic language. They capture the reader's attention by what they don't say.