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Imagined states : nationalism, utopia, and longing in oral cultures /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Del Giudice, Luisa, Porter, Gerald, 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Oral tradition.
Utopias.
Imaginary places.
Ethnicity.
Nationalism.
Nostalgia.
Tradition orale.
Utopies.
Lieux imaginaires.
Ethnicité.
Nationalisme.
Nostalgie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Mondelinge literatuur.
Utopieën.
Denkbeeldige landen.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Heimwee.
Kulturelle Identität.
Imaginärer Schauplatz.
Mündliche Überlieferung.
Utopie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.