December 12, 2022
Against Hillbilly Hot Takes: Humanizing Rural Appalachia through Nuanced Rhetorical Frames
![Rural landscape](https://www.presenttensejournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CarlsonCover-150x150.jpeg)
“Appalachia” is a loaded word, and, as rhetoricians, we know how much one word can matter. . . . There is, as Adichie claims, danger in a single story; all people, in all places, deserve to be viewed with nuance, with attention towards the many stories that make up a place.