A space on the side of the road : cultural poetics in an "other" America /
"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 'oc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©1996.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.