Participation Type
Poster
Session Title
POSTER SESSION 2
Presentation #1 Title
Women Writing Steel: Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
Economic centers of northern Appalachia (Johnstown, Pittsburgh, Steubenville, Weirton, Wheeling, and Youngstown) define the Rust Belt because of their historical association with the steel industry. Steelworkers and mills populate the work of regional male authors and poets such as Thomas Bell, Robert Bruno, and Robert Gibb. Their work constitutes a subterranean canon of literature, however, works about the steel industry written by women are overlooked. Women steelworkers and writers such as Harriet Simpson Arnow, Jan Beatty, Margaret Byington, Steffi Domike, Eliese Colette Goldbach, Rebecca HardingDavis, and Eleanor Wymard explore the mills and the life of steelworkers in their works.
Women Writing Steel: Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry
Economic centers of northern Appalachia (Johnstown, Pittsburgh, Steubenville, Weirton, Wheeling, and Youngstown) define the Rust Belt because of their historical association with the steel industry. Steelworkers and mills populate the work of regional male authors and poets such as Thomas Bell, Robert Bruno, and Robert Gibb. Their work constitutes a subterranean canon of literature, however, works about the steel industry written by women are overlooked. Women steelworkers and writers such as Harriet Simpson Arnow, Jan Beatty, Margaret Byington, Steffi Domike, Eliese Colette Goldbach, Rebecca HardingDavis, and Eleanor Wymard explore the mills and the life of steelworkers in their works.
