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

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dc.contributor.authorDel Giudice, Luisa, editor
dc.contributor.authorPorter Gerald, editor
dc.contributor.authorUtah State University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:45:46Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:45:46Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractAn 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.
dc.description.tableofcontentsMountains 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 Vike-Freiberga.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/87823
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectOral tradition
dc.subjectUtopias
dc.subjectImaginary places
dc.subjectEthnicity
dc.subjectNationalism
dc.subjectNostalgia
dc.titleImagined states: nationalism, utopia, and longing in oral cultures
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