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• W126793111 abstract "If novels published by writers from western North Carolina during the past two years serve as any indication, Thomas Wolfe continues to be an inspiring presence in--if not a shadow overhanging--Appalachian fiction. A survey of four recent titles, Charles Frazier's Nightwoods (Random House, 2011), Wiley Cash's A Land More Kind Than Home (HarperCollins, 2012), Terry Roberts's A Short Time to Stay Here (Ingalls, 2012), and Ron Rash's The Cove (HarperCollins, 2012), yields frequent explicit references to Wolfe. The title of Wiley Cash's novel is quoted from You Can't Go Home Again. Characters from Wolfe's world make appearances in the novels by Ron Rash and Terry Roberts. Both Roberts and Cash are members of the Thomas Wolfe Society and prolific scholars on Wolfe's work, who have acknowledged Wolfe's influence. Frazier similarly nods to Wolfe's influence in his blurb for Scribner's 2006 edition of Look Homeward, Angel (1929), when, after lengthy praise for his fellow Asheville native, he claims Wolfe as of (i), suggesting, as Robert Morgan has elsewhere, (1) how enabling it has been for later North Carolina writers to look back on the accomplishments of their literary forebear. Despite all this influence, the direction taken by writers from western North Carolina has been, by and large, opposite to that pursued by Wolfe in most of his writing. Whereas the hill-pent--and yet urban--Wolfe sought in his life and writing to escape the prison of the mountains in order to make contact with a more expansive, modern world, most contemporary Appala chian fiction retreats from modernity by moving backward in time and crawling as far as possible back into the remote fastnesses of the mountains in order to explore there a culture that has not yet been thoroughly obliterated by the forces of global capitalism and mass media. Nearly a century after its publication, Look Homeward, Angel is still the great urban novel of the North Carolina mountains--perhaps the great urban novel from the entire state. And if we consider Wolfe's wanderings in Boston, New York, and the cultural capitals of Europe as recounted in his three subsequent novels, the pastoral proclivities of contemporary North Carolina writers become all the more evident. All four of the novels discussed in this essay explore extremely rural communities in the counties to the north and west of Wolfe's Asheville, with the Madison County small towns of Mars Hill, Hot Springs, and Marshall figuring prominently as mankind's puny scratchings in these still untamed hinterlands. Three of these novels are explicitly historical fictions, set in the North Carolina mountains of fifty and one hundred years ago. As is always the case with such imaginings, they tell us as much about our own times--our contemporary values and anxieties-- as they do about the periods they ostensibly explore. Although Wiley Cash's A Land More Kind Than Home is set in 1980s Appalachia, readers entering the novel's remote Madison County feel that they are moving further back in time. The rural electric crews stringing wires up over the mountain ridges appear still tentative in their efforts. Indeed, one of the novel's haunting deaths occurs in this effort to maintain electric service to homes in the remote mountains. When trucks become mired in snow-covered back roads distant from the nearest woodstove, the isolation feels inevitable. When the novel's villain, Reverend Carson Chambliss, pastes newspapers over the windows of his small church so that outsiders will not see members of the congregation handling snakes and demonstrating other signs of their faith, this resistance to the policing gaze of the mainstream public expresses the very remoteness of the land where generations have lived and died in relative obscurity. The readiness of these worshippers to believe in supernatural interventions into their lives is every bit as convincing as are the superstitions of the hill folk in Ron Rash's The Cove, which is set seventy years earlier in the same part of the state. …" @default.
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• W126793111 title "The Legacy of Thomas Wolfe in Contemporary Appalachian Fiction: Four Recent North Carolina Novels" @default.
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