The thistle and the brier : historical links and cultural parallels between Scotland and Appalachia / by Richard Blaustein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaustein, Richard.

Series:

Contributions to southern Appalachian studies ; 7.

Contributions to southern Appalachian studies ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Ethnicity.

Ethnicity--Scotland.

Group identity--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Group identity.

Group identity--Scotland.

Civilization.

Relations.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Relations--Scotland.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Scotland--Relations--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Scotland.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Civilization.

Scotland--Civilization.

Southern Appalachian Region.

Physical Description:

viii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2003]

Contents:

Tracing Scottish allusions in American discourse on Appalachia

Appalachia studies comes of age

Scottish cultural revivals : a sketch and a theory

Conversation with a cultural missionary : Flora Macdonald Gammon, Waynesville, North Carolina, 17 January 1994

Core and periphery : the critique of the internal colonialism model in Scotland and Appalachia

The thistle and the brier : poetics and identity politics in Scotland and Appalachia

Self portrait of a cultural activist : a conversation with Hamish Henderson, Edinburgh, 13 June 1996

Folk-bashing and cultural self-determination in Scotland, Nova Scotia and Appalachia : looking for constructive alternatives to deconstructionism

Dinna say Dinna : teachers as agents of linguistic colonialism in Scotland and Appalachia

Poems make the people: a conversation with Joy Hendry, Edinburgh, 1 July 1996

The beginning of a new song : some reflections upon the opening of the new Scottish Parliament

Conclusion : thinking ocean to ocean.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index.

ISBN:

0786414529

OCLC:

51223651