Abstract

This article examines a late nineteenth-and early twentiethcentury newspaper published in Appalachian eastern Kentucky for evidence of literacy practices in the locality as a way to counter the myth of Appalachian illiteracy that characterizes the "idea of Appalachia." I demonstrate that a wide variety of literacy practices are documented within the newspaper but also that the newspaper itself both creates and invokes a literate populace.

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