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Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

1/1/1976 - 12/31/1976

Funding Totals

$20,000.00 (approved)
$20,000.00 (awarded)

Appalachian Literature

FAIN: FA-11312-76

Wilma S. Dykeman
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To study Appalachian literature ranging from the myth-making of Davy Crockett's Autobiography and blood-and-tear-stained ballads to the satire and rhetoric of town-bred, hill-pent Thomas Wolfe and the provocative prose of James Agee.