Publication

1998 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Language

English

Word Count

13,250 words, Guess

Page Count

53 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL698487M
  • ISBN-100807122505
  • OCLC Control Number37917450
  • Library of Congress Control Number97046082
  • LibraryThing608133
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  • Goodreads1554750

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3569.T6965 B94 1998

Description

Black Shawl emanates from Kathryn Stripling Byer's fascination with female ballad singers in southern Appalachia, whose voices haunt the mountains still, and from the image of a black net or shawl being dragged over the ground, plumbing the depths, collecting bits and fragments of a woman's life. The singers and storytellers of this collection are struggling to answer the query of the book's epigraph: "What will you make of this?"

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