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The quest of the folk : antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia / Ian McKay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKay, Ian, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Nova Scotia.
- Folklore.
- Culture and tourism--Social aspects--Nova Scotia.
- Culture and tourism.
- Nova Scotia--Social life and customs.
- Nova Scotia.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The use and abuse of the idea of the "Simple Life" in tourism promotion and the massive dissemination of folk images are analysed in depth. McKay examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was rewritten to erase evidence of an urban, capitalist society, of class and ethnic differences, and of women's emancipation. He sheds new light on the roles of Helen Creighton, the Maritime region's most famous folklorist, and Mary Black, an influential handicrafts revivalist, in creating this false identity. McKay also looks at the infusion of the folk ideology into the art and literature of the region. McKay puts the folk concept into contemporary and international contexts by drawing on Marxist notions of political economy, Gramscian models of cultural production and hegemony, and Foucaultian structuralism. The Quest of the Folk will be of interest to folklorists, cultural historians, literary scholars, and anyone with an interest in the local history of the Maritimes or Maritime regional identity.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: A Postcard from the "Shore of Songs"
- The Idea of the Folk
- Helen Creighton and the Rise of Folklore
- Mary Black and the Invention of Handicrafts
- "O, So True & Real Like the Sea & the Rocks": The Folk and the Pursuit of the Simple Life
- The Folk under Conditions of Postmodernity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-366) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85694-4
- 9786612856945
- 0-7735-6468-3
- OCLC:
- 1394871784
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