The thistle and the brier : historical links and cultural parallels between Scotland and Appalachia / by Richard Blaustein.

Author/creator Blaustein, Richard
Format Book
Publication InfoJefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2003.
Descriptionviii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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.

SeriesContributions to southern Appalachian studies ; 7
Contributions to southern Appalachian studies ; 7. ^A395703
Contents Tracing Scottish allusions in American discourse on Appalachia -- Appalachia studies comes of age -- Scottish cultural revivals : a sketch and a theory -- Conversation with a cultural missionary : Flora Macdonald Gammon, Waynesville, North Carolina, 17 January 1994 -- Core and periphery : the critique of the internal colonialism model in Scotland and Appalachia -- The thistle and the brier : poetics and identity politics in Scotland and Appalachia -- Self portrait of a cultural activist : a conversation with Hamish Henderson, Edinburgh, 13 June 1996 -- Folk-bashing and cultural self-determination in Scotland, Nova Scotia and Appalachia : looking for constructive alternatives to deconstructionism -- Dinna say Dinna : teachers as agents of linguistic colonialism in Scotland and Appalachia -- Poems make the people: a conversation with Joy Hendry, Edinburgh, 1 July 1996 -- The beginning of a new song : some reflections upon the opening of the new Scottish Parliament -- Conclusion : thinking ocean to ocean.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.
LCCN 2002154977
ISBN0786414529 (softcover : alk. paper)

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