Imagined states nationalism, utopia, and longing in oral cultures

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Author:

Del Giudice, Luisa.

ISBN:

9780874214574

Publication Information:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2001.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.) : ill.

Contents:

Mountains of cheese and rivers of wine: Paesi di Cuccagna and other gastronomic utopias / Luisa Del Giudice -- Prefaced space: tales of the colonial British collectors of Indian folklore / Sadhana Naithani -- Working the railways, constructing Navvy identity / Reimund Kvideland and Gerald Porter -- "Who talks of my nation?" the role of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in constructing "Englishness" / Gerald Porter -- The Turkish German self: displacing German-German conflict in oriental street ballads / Tom Cheesman -- Bovine bodies and the domestication of the human mind / Cozette Griffin-Kremer -- "The poppy blossom from my native land": the married woman as exile in Latvian folk poetry / Vaira Vīk̦e-Freiberga.

Abstract:

An international ensemble of folklore scholars looks at varied ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively used imagined states of existence-some idealizations, some demonizations-in the construction of identities for themselves and for others.

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