Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes - Paperbackby Dwight B. Billings (Editor), Gurney Norman (Editor), Katherine Ledford (Editor) Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle once again adopted these stereotypes, recasting the American myth as a story of repeated failure and poverty the failure of the American spirit and the