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ISBN
0-691-01104-4 (alk. paper)
0-691-01103-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Idioma
eng
Clasificación DEWEY
306.09754 STE-s
Autor
Stewart, Kathleen, 1953- , autor
Título
A space on the side of the road : cultural poetics in an "other" America / Kathleen Stewart.
Lugar de publicación
Princeton Princeton University Press c1996
Descripción
xii, 243 páginas : ilustraciones ; 25 cm.
Tipo de medio digital o análogo
sin medio rdamedia
Medio de almacenamiento
volumen rdacarrier
Nota de Resumen
A Space on the Side of the Road vividly evokes an "other" America that survives precariously among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and "hollers." To Kathleen Stewart, this particular "other" exists as an excluded subtext to the American narrative of capitalism, modernization, materialism, and democracy. In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and Twilight, men and women "just settin'" track a dense social imaginary through stories of traumas, apparitions, encounters, and eccentricities. Stewart explores how this rhythmic, dramatic, and complicated storytelling imbues everyday life in the hills and forms a cultural poetics. Alternating her own ruminations on language, culture, and politics with continuous accounts of "just talk," Stewart propels us into the intensity of this nervous, surreal "space on the side of the road." It is a space that gives us a glimpse into a breach in American society itself, where graveyards of junked cars and piles of other trashed objects endure along with the memories that haunt those who have been left behind by "progress." Like James Agee's portrayal of the poverty-stricken tenant farmers of the Depression South in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this book uses both language and photographs to help readers encounter a fragmented and betrayed community, one "occupied" by schoolteachers, doctors, social workers, and other professionals representing an "official" America. Holding at bay any attempts at definitive, social scientific analysis, Stewart has concocted a new sort of ethnographic writing that conveys the immediacy, density, texture, and materiality of the coal camps. A Space on the Side of the Road finally bridges the gap between anthropology and cultural studies and provides us with a brilliant and challenging experiment in thinking and writing about "America."
Fuente de adquisición
Ebsco ; compra ; 18/1/2018
Materia
Mineros de Carbón -- Virginia Occidental (Estados Unidos)
Etnología -- Virginia Occidental (Estados Unidos)
Folclore -- Virginia Occidental (Estados Unidos)
Materia Nombre Geográfico
Virginia Occidental (Estados Unidos) -- Condiciones Rurales
Virginia Occidental (Estados Unidos) -- Vida Social y Costumbres
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