10-27-2020, 03:40 PM
(10-26-2020, 12:17 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: This video just cropped up for me:
I wasn't crazy about that video. First, Appalachia is a region with ill defined borders. Although I chuckled at the idea Middletown, Ohio was a part of Appalachia, southwestern Ohio is part of Appalachia, she should reference her own map. While southern Georgia definitely isn't part of Appalachia. Again she should refer to her own map. But, then the map is just a loose guide because Appalachia doesn't have definitive boundaries.
I understand the depiction of some of the people in Hillbilly Elegy is unflattering so some want to distance themselves from it. But, my wife, my daughter, and myself found it hilarious considering how similar it was to my upbringing. It was more of a parody than a political commentary to us.
The host of that podcast didn't like how Hillbilly Elegy was purported to speak for an entire region, but her book recommendations were mostly from "marginalized" voices from the fringes of Appalachian society that are nowhere near mainstream Appalachia and would most likely be persecuted or at the very least shunned by the majority. The majority of those books don't speak for Appalachia either.
