The thistle and the brier
Subtitle: historical links and cultural parallels between Scotland and Appalachia
By: by Richard Blaustein.
Series: Contributions to southern Appalachian studies ;; 7
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Ethnicity -- Appalachian Region, Southern.; Ethnicity -- Scotland.; Group identity -- Appalachian Region, Southern.; Group identity -- Scotland.; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Relations -- Scotland.; Scotland -- Relations -- Appalachian Region, Southern.; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Civilization.; Scotland -- Civilization.
Description: "This book explores the parallels and connections between Scotland and Southern Appalachia, with special attention to the interplay between revivals of folk culture, native languages, and dialects in Scotland and Appalachia since the 1970s. It covers modern-day Scottish and Appalachian cultural movements, and identity politics, and offers numerous references to the literature of Appalachia and Scotland."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tracing Scottish allusions in American discourse on Appalachia; title: Appalachia studies comes of age; title: Scottish cultural revivals : a sketch and a theory; title: Conversation with a cultural missionary : Flora MacDonald Gammon, Waynesville, North Carolina, 17 January 1994; title: Core and periphery : a critique of the internal colonialism model in Scotland and Appalachia; title: The thistle and the brier : poetics and identity politics in Scotland and Appalachia; title: Self portrait of a cultural activist : a conversation with Hamish Henderson, Edinburgh, 13 June 1996; title: Folk-bashing and cultural self-determination in Scotland, Nova Scotia, and Appalachia : looking for constructive alternatives to deconstructionism; title: Dinna say dinna : teachers as agents of linguistic colonialism in Scotland and Appalachia; title: Poems make the people : a conversation with Joy Hendry, Edinburgh, 1 July 1996; title: The beginning of a new song : some reflections upon the opening of the new Scottish Parliament; title: Conclusion : thinking ocean to ocean.