Title A space on the side of the road : cultural poetics in an "other" America / Kathleen Stewart

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations Contents List of photographs -- Acknowledgments -- The Space of Culture -- A Space of Critique -- "Subjects" and "Objects" in the Space of an Immanent Critique -- The Space of Story -- The Space on the Side of the Road -- An Ethnographic Space -- Mimetic Excess in an Occupied Place -- An "Other" America -- An Occupied Place -- The Hills as a Social Imaginary -- Being Caught -- The Spectacle of Impacts -- A Lost Homeland -- Unforgetting: The Anecdotal and the Accidental -- Unforgetting -- A Near Miss -- The Diacritics of Interruptions -- An Other Interruption, or an Interruption from the Other Side -- Chronotopes -- Roaming the Ruins -- The Shock of History -- Riley's Last Ride -- Mr. Henry's Sticks -- Encounters -- The Bourgeois Imaginary -- Spaces of Encounter -- Encountering Alterity -- The Sign of the Body -- Hollie Smith's Encounter -- Afterthought -- The Space of the Sign -- The Social Semiotics of Signs -- Signs of Sociality -- The Space of the Gap -- The Space of Performance -- A Visit(ation) -- The Accident -- A Visit(ation) -- A Postcard -- The Place of Ideals -- The Space of Mediation -- Claims and Counterclaims -- Ideals in the Space of Desire -- In the Realm of Negations -- Placing People -- A Space on the Side of the Road -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "A Space on the Side of the Road vividly evokes an 'other' America that survives precariously among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and 'hollers' ... [It] uses both language and photographs to help readers encounter a fragmented and betrayed community, one 'occupied' by schoolteachers, doctors, social workers, and other professionals representing an 'official' America."--Back cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index Notes Print version record Subject Coal miners -- West Virginia Ethnology -- West Virginia Folklore -- West Virginia SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. Coal miners. Ethnology. Folklore. Bergbaugebiet Volkskultur Volksliteratur Mijnwerkers. Manners and customs. Volkscultuur. Rural conditions. Sociale situatie. Folkseder. Gruvarbetare. SUBJECT West Virginia -- Rural conditions West Virginia -- Social life and customs Subject West Virginia. West Virginia -- Südwest Förenta staterna -- West Virginia. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780691212883 0691212880

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