[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-597794-105":59,"doc-detail-597794-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":123,"head_meta":125,"extra_data":127,"updated_unix":129},105,"en","the-cea-forum-winterspring-2006-special-section-regions-postcolonial-appalachia","The CEA Forum - Winter/Spring 2006 - SPECIAL SECTION: REGION(S) - POSTCOLONIAL APPALACHIA","","The essay examines Appalachia through a postcolonial lens, challenging stereotypes of the region as backward and insular by emphasizing how identities and cultures function as heterogeneous hybrids shaped by global forces. Using Sheryl Stevenson’s discussion of Diane Gilliam Fisher’s award-winning poetry book Kettle Bottom, it links Homi Bhabha’s hybridity and worlding to Mikhail Bakhtin’s polyglossia and heteroglossia. The analysis highlights how Fisher’s multi-voiced sequence dramatizes the 1920–1921 mine wars and explores linguistic clashes and cultural encounter sites over time.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":15,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/the-cea-forum-winterspring-2006-special-section-regions-postcolonial-appalachia/597794/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/the-cea-forum-winterspring-2006-special-section-regions-postcolonial-appalachia/597794.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"SANS","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-22","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":14},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What does the essay argue about Appalachia’s cultural identity?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"It argues that Appalachia should not be treated as a fixed, backward region. Instead, regional identity is understood as a heterogeneous hybrid influenced by immigrant, multicultural, and postcolonial perspectives.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How does Kettle Bottom connect postcolonial theory to student understanding?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"The poetry sequence invites readers to rethink assumptions about Appalachia by illustrating postcolonial concepts through multiple voices from the mining community.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What role do “L'Inglese” and language clash play in the analysis?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"“L'Inglese” is used to show polyglossia—where different national cultures interact and produce a polyglot consciousness. The poem’s imagery depicts English learning as rocky and constraining while new words and meanings emerge.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},597794,1792660268,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":14,"category_name":15,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":14,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":29,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":44},962090760505,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","The CEA Forum  \nWinter/Spring 2006: 35.1  \nSPECIAL SECTION: REGION(S)  \nPOSTCOLONIAL APPALACHIA:  \nBHABHA, BAKHTIN, AND DIANE GILLIAM FISHER'S KETTLE BOTTOM  \nSheryl Stevenson  \nIn the popular imagination, Appalachia is stereotyped as backward and insular, epitomizing negative qualities associated with regionalism. But surely as we have become more attuned to immigrant, multicultural, and postcolonial perspectives, our sense of the region—any region—has shifted toward awareness of identities and cultures as heterogeneous hybrids, inseparable from global influences. Promoting such awareness, Diane Gilliam Fisher's 2004 award-winning book of poems, Kettle Bottom, offers students a revealing vantage point for seeing Appalachian regional culture in a postcolonial context. An artful and accessible poetic sequence that was selected as the 2005 summer reading for entering students at Smith College, Kettle Bottom enables diverse students to reconsider their notions of Appalachia, and of regional identities, while also gaining a better understanding of postcolonial theory. In particular, Fisher's poems provide vivid examples that make Homi Bhabha's approach to postcolonial analysis not only relevant to the students themselves, but revelatory. Combining Bhabha's notion of hybridity with Mikhail Bakhtin's views on hybridization, polyglossia, and heteroglossia, we can see how these concepts can come alive for students when they are tied to Fisher's poems.  \nKettle Bottom portrays compelling events and clashing cultures of the 1920-1921 mine wars that were focused in Mingo County, West Virginia, with mining deaths and anti-union violence eventually drawing 9,000 or more miners into an armed uprising that was only quelled by national forces (Shogun 208) . Fisher's dramatic poetic sequence rivets the attention of students, but the book's many voices also illustrate postcolonial theory, in that the poems present regional culture as a multicultural mix created by conflicting discourses, sites of cultural encounters within a globalized region. And Kettle Bottom represents these sites of encounter through its very structure, since the poems unfold a story, stretching over a year's time, through the voices of diverse members of the mining community, including women and children, workers and owners, those born in the region and migrants brought there to work.  \nTo see how the poems and theoretical concepts illuminate each other, let's consider three types of hybridity in Kettle Bottom . First, in poems voicing perspectives of Italian immigrants and migrant African Americans, hybridity marks a borderline, a meeting of national languages (Bakhtin's polyglossia) or of regional, ethnic idioms—the dynamic heteroglossia that Bakhtin finds within any national language (60-61, 66-67) . One of Fisher's most powerful representations of polyglossia emerges in Kettle Bottom 's second poem. Offering an entry into the mine experience, as well as a gloss on the book's title, “L'Inglese” dispels nostalgic notions that a regional culture will be encapsulated in a romanticized dialect, essentially rooted in the locality and free from foreign impurities. Note the clash between languages experienced by the Italian immigrant speaker in “L'Inglese,” a strangeness felt “in the mouth”:  \nThe English is rocky in the mouth,  \nso many hard sounds they batter the tongue  \nlike coal clattering from the tipple  \ninto the railroad car. It makes a longing  \nin the ear for a voice to rise and fall like a fountain. They make new words—  \nthey have no Tasso, they have no Dante  \nto tell them the names. It is months  \nI am wondering: What is “kettle bottom,”il sotto della caldaia , that they fear?  \nFinally I ask Henry Burgess. He laughs,  \nhe says it is the petrified tree trunk  \nburied in the mountain, two, three hundred  \npounds. Drops through the mine roof, Henry says, and makes a loud clap with his hands. Kills a man  \njust like that. For such a thing I would not say “kettle bo","cbCaiopo5BS1UvDB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiopo5BS1UvDB","pdf",30991,"English","# SPECIAL SECTION: REGION(S)\n## POSTCOLONIAL APPALACHIA\n## Hybridity, polyglossia, and heteroglossia in Kettle Bottom\n## Linguistic clash in “L'Inglese” and polyglot consciousness\n## Cultural hybridity in “At the Colored Bathhouse”","[{\"question\":\"What does the essay argue about Appalachia’s cultural identity?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that Appalachia should not be treated as a fixed, backward region. Instead, regional identity is understood as a heterogeneous hybrid influenced by immigrant, multicultural, and postcolonial perspectives.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Kettle Bottom connect postcolonial theory to student understanding?\",\"answer\":\"The poetry sequence invites readers to rethink assumptions about Appalachia by illustrating postcolonial concepts through multiple voices from the mining community.\"},{\"question\":\"What role do “L'Inglese” and language clash play in the analysis?\",\"answer\":\"“L'Inglese” is used to show polyglossia—where different national cultures interact and produce a polyglot consciousness. The poem’s imagery depicts English learning as rocky and constraining while new words and meanings emerge.\"}]","The CEA Forum - Winter/Spring 2006 - SPECIAL SECTION: REGION(S) - POSTCOLONIAL APPALACHIA | PDF",1792085717]