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Seeing Inside the Mountains: Cynthia Rylant's Appalachian Literature and the "Hillbilly" Stereotype

"Seeing Inside the Mountains: Cynthia Rylant's Appalachian Literature and the 'Hillbilly' Stereotype" examines Rylant's unsettling of Appalachian stereotype in the picture books When I Was Young in the Mountains and The Relatives Came and in the Newbery Medal-winning novel Missing May. Against a historical backdrop that envisions the residents of Appalachia either as noble savages or as white trash, Rylant projects a vision of deeply humanistic "interiority," a vision available only to those willing to read beyond external cultural codes.