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ancestral resilience
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Author_Glenn Taylor
Black survival
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climate collapse in fiction
Colonial America to dystopian future
colonial American girlhood
Connecting the past through songs
Dystopian novel
eco-spiritual survival stories
ecofiction novel
Environmental collapse in fiction
environmental dystopia literature
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Feminist historical novel
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Historical fiction set in West Virginia
Historical fiction spanning centuries
history of marginalized communities in fiction
hybrid of myth and history
Indigenous presence in Appalachia
Indigenous voices in Appalachian fiction
intergenerational survival
Morgantown
multigenerational sagas
Oral storytelling in historical fiction
oral traditions in novels
political unrest in novels
post-disaster fiction
Reclaiming history
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Song of Blood
Song of Bone
Song of Imagination
Song of Memory
Song of Providence
Song of Recurring Dream #44
Song of Recurring Dream #77
Song of Recurring Dream #99
Song of Regret
Song of Solomon Wood
Song of Sorrow
Song of Switchback
Song of the Arrow
Song of the Bad Prize
Song of the BucketMouth of TalePackia
Song of the Exalted
Song of the Fishbird
Song of the Flood
Song of the Great Horned Owl
Song of the Llama
Song of the Marvelous Museum
Song of the MuleBird
Song of the Nascent
Song of the Oxherd
Song of the Panther
Song of the Recidivist
Song of the Robot
Song of the Runaways
Song of the Splintercat
Song of the Stringbean
Song of the Tree
Song of the WorkShirt
Song of Water
speculative Appalachian literature
Stories as songs in literature
survival after catastrophe
Survival fiction
survivalist family stories
The role of music in resistance
Time-traveling narratives in fiction
visionary Appalachian fiction
West Virginia
West Virginia fiction
West Virginia folklore
women-centered historical fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781625347305
- Weight: 159g
- Dimensions: 137 x 214mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2023
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Some called her the Everywhen Woman. She claimed to be 321 years of age. In 2038, after the big storm and the great flood and the bad times, Betty Baach wrote these words down and sometimes spoke them aloud, at her homeplace on Freon Hill. She referred to them as songs. All stories are songs, she’d always say.
Set in West Virginia, The Songs of Betty Baach is a magical guide to resisting despair and a compendium of wisdom and rhythms by which to fortify oneself. The lives of the Baaches of Keystone and the Knoxes of Mosestown twist and connect in a tale of survival and retribution that crosses three centuries—moving from Betty’s girlhood in colonial America to a future warped by environmental collapse and political unrest. Refusing the erasure of the lives of women, Indigenous peoples, and Black people who have always called this region home, this eloquent and distinctive novel is a necessary remedy for the continued distortion of a land and its inhabitants.
Set in West Virginia, The Songs of Betty Baach is a magical guide to resisting despair and a compendium of wisdom and rhythms by which to fortify oneself. The lives of the Baaches of Keystone and the Knoxes of Mosestown twist and connect in a tale of survival and retribution that crosses three centuries—moving from Betty’s girlhood in colonial America to a future warped by environmental collapse and political unrest. Refusing the erasure of the lives of women, Indigenous peoples, and Black people who have always called this region home, this eloquent and distinctive novel is a necessary remedy for the continued distortion of a land and its inhabitants.
