The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Sports ” —The Wall Street Journal

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He just has to find out how

catalogue and publish folk stories from Britain and Ireland before the turn of the 21st century

she was determined to finally get her happily-ever-after—and she's not giving up yet

the Lord of Gluttony

The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Sports ” —The Wall Street JournalThe Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary cultural identity rooted in difference, marked by resistance to respectability and class performance, and shaped by reckoning with the legacies of whiteness and