Dr. Erica Abrams Locklear

There are 3 included publications by Dr. Erica Abrams Locklear :

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Mountain Fatalism in Wiley Cash’s A Land More Kind Than Home 2014 2583 In 2003 Wiley Cash had the initial idea for the storyline of his debut novel, A Land More Kind Than Home, when his “professor, Reggie Scott Young, brought in a news story about a young African American boy with autism who’d been smothered during a he...
On Teaching Harriette Simpson Arnow 2012 1521 When I began doctoral study in English at Louisiana State University in 2003, I thought I knew a little something about Appalachian literature. I had read James Still, Lee Smith, Robert Morgan, and several other mountain writers, and I was vaguely fa...
"What are You?": Exploring Racial Categorization in Nowhere Else on Earth 2006 991 Fiction writer Josephine Humphreys explores the complexities, falsifications, and implications of racial classification for the Lumbee Indiansof Robeson County, North Carolina in her historically based novel Nowhere Else on Earth...In this essay I in...