Knowing your place : rural identity and cultural hierarchy / edited by Barbara Ching and Gerald W. Creed.
Bringing together noted anthropologists and literary scholars, Knowing Your Place explores rural identity in a number of cultures and situations. Essays examine the distinction between popular and high culture, the explosion of high technology, the impact of environmental policy, the role of labor i...
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Table of Contents:
- Recognizing rusticity : identity and the power of place / Gerald W. Creed and Barbara Ching
- Rurality and "racial" landscapes in Trinidad / Aisha Khan
- "Is it true what they say about Dixie?" : Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and rural/urban exchange in modern African-American literature / William J. Maxwell
- "Ain't it funny how time slips away?" : talk, trash, and technology in a Texas "redneck" bar / Aaron A. Fox
- "Campesinos" and "técnicos" : new peasant intellectuals in Central American politics / Marc Edelman
- Class, gender, and the rural in James Joyce's "The dead" / Elizabeth A. Sheehan
- The roman du terroir au féminin in Quebec : Guèvremont's and Blais' re-visioning of a rural tradition / Beatrice Guenther
- Rurality, rusticity, and contested identity politics in Brittany / David Maynard
- The rise and fall of "peasantry" as a culturally constructed national elite in Israel / Susan H. Lees
- The alpine landscape in Australian mythologies of ecology and nation / Michèle D. Dominy.