From a Race of Storytellers
The Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb
Kimberley M. Holloway, editor
The first criticism of Sharyn McCrumb’s Ballad novels
This book is a first-of-its-kind treatment of the ballad novels of Sharyn McCrumb. It contains articles and essays about all aspects of McCrumb’s work, including literary criticism, interpretation, and practical suggestions for teaching the ballad novels.
Teachers from the United States and abroad have long asked for a good source book to help them in their quest to teach the ballad novels and to open the culture of the Appalachian Mountains as it really is to their students. From a Race of Storytellers: Essays on the Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb has been compiled to fill this need.
From a Race of Storytellers will also be attractive to the general reader who wants to read more about the characters who inhabit McCrumb’s fictional Hamelin, Tennessee, and to better understand the events that occur there. Through essays written by fourteen different scholars of McCrumb’s fiction and one by McCrumb herself, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the real southern Appalachian mountains, not just the popular image. Like McCrumb, each author is committed to examining what it means to live in Appalachia.
Kimberley M. Holloway grew up in Cookeville TN. She attended Tennessee Technological University (BS) and East Tennessee State University (MA) and presently lives in Johnson City TN. She has been a teacher, writer, and copyeditor. She is now Associate Director of Communications and Lecturer in English at King College in Bristol TN. She has two daughters, Jennifer and Stephanie.
Titles of related interest
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
Elements: The Novels of James Dickey
For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader
