A space on the side of the road
Kathleen Stewart
A space on the side of the road : cultural poetics in an "other" America /Kathleen Stewart - Princeton : Princeton University Press , ©1996. - xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
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.
9780691011035
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Social Sciences
Rural conditions--Manners and customs
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A space on the side of the road : cultural poetics in an "other" America /Kathleen Stewart - Princeton : Princeton University Press , ©1996. - xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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.
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.
9780691011035
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002
Social Sciences
Rural conditions--Manners and customs
306.09754 STE
