- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Deliverance
- Creator:
- Inscoe, John C., 1951-
- Date of Original:
- 2003-09-16
- Subject:
- Dickey, James. Deliverance
Male friendship--Fiction
Appalachians (People)--Fiction
Victims of violent crimes--Fiction
Wilderness survival--Fiction
Canoes and canoeing--Fiction
Male rape victims--Fiction
Georgia--Fiction
Psychological fiction
Suspense fiction
Motion pictures--United States - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Deliverance. James Dickey's first novel, Deliverance, is an adventure story of a three-day canoe trip in the rugged wilderness of southern Appalachia, in which four suburbanites are brutalized both by the sheer force of the river and by violent and degenerate mountain men. Although James Dickey, an Atlanta native, never identified Georgia as the book's setting, the city from which the four men come was widely assumed to have been Atlanta. The river where most of the book's action takes place, the Cahulawassee, closely resembles the Chattooga River, which forms the border between Georgia and South Carolina in the former's northeasternmost corner in Rabun County.
Only a few months after the book's publication in March 1970, a film adaptation confirmed its Georgia setting by filming on location in Rabun County and on the Chattooga. Released in 1972, the film became one of the most popular of the year. Both book and movie had much to do with confirming to a national audience the hillbilly stereotypes that had long plagued southern Appalachia. The film, in particular, stands as the most degrading depiction of southern mountaineers ever put on film and led to strong protests both by north Georgians and by Appalachian scholars. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/deliverance/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "Deliverance," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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