A Place Called District 12
Appalachian Geography and Music in The Hunger Games
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About the Book
When creating her post-apocalyptic world of The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins drew from various real-world history and geography, particularly from Appalachia, which is reflected in the culture and location of District 12. With the release of her 2019 prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Collins brought readers deeper into Appalachia’s extraordinary cultural diversity and its storied musical traditions. This book provides a tour of human geography, history and culture that establishes the foundation for the saga’s novels and films. Told from the expertise of a geographer, it explores how place can shape culture, how social and geographical concepts intersect and how these ideas apply to The Hunger Games. Specifically, the work explores the idea of “home,” and how attachment to a place is strengthened through landscape, geography and song.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
Thomas W. Paradis
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 250
Bibliographic Info: photo, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2022
pISBN: 978-1-4766-8728-5
eISBN: 978-1-4766-4573-5
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface 1
Introduction 7
Part I: Setting the Geographic Stage
1. District 12 of Central Appalachia 13
2. Places and Spaces of District 12 26
3. Katniss at Home 41
4. An Appalachian Melting Pot 58
5. Small Town in Panem 76
6. Portraying the Seam 93
7. Designing a Capital City 103
8. Panem as World System 127
Part II: The Music of District 12
9. The Ballads of Appalachia 135
10. Mountain String Bands 153
11. District 12 Goes Country 161
12. Bluegrass and the Covey 182
13. Building a Bluegrass Sound 195
14. A National Audience 206
15. Maude Ivory the Songbird 215
Chapter Notes 223
Bibliography 233
Index 239
