Article Title
A Double-Sided Mirror: "Otherizing" and Normalizing the Silenced Voices of Appalachian Women
First Advisor
Emma Howes
Abstract
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Appalachian region was not only exploited for capitalistic gains, but also put on display by outsider voices for being home to a supposed "backwards" and "barbaric" culture. Appalachians experienced exploitation working in mines and other industries that only benefitted those receiving the resources of the mountains. A once self-sustaining, individualized culture was now forced to be dependent and suffer through the "otherization" of its own people. Voices hidden in the murky skies and distant mountains of Appalachia were not only silenced, but more hauntingly, they were spoken for, manipulated, and marginalized. One example of such devastating manipulations of voice lies in the insider voices of Appalachian women and the voices outside of the region that spoke for these women in text. Throughout the research I am presenting here, I will begin to reclaim the stolen, replaced, and marginalized voices of Appalachian women not only in hopes to repair the injustices done to this population some years ago, but also to set an example of how to carry out just research in modern studies of the region.
Recommended Citation
Canter, Ashley
(2016)
"A Double-Sided Mirror: "Otherizing" and Normalizing the Silenced Voices of Appalachian Women,"
Bridges: A Journal of Student Research: Vol. 10:
Iss.
10, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/bridges/vol10/iss10/1
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