| Description |
xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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."--Back cover |
| Analysis |
Coal miners West Virginia |
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Ethnology West Virginia |
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Folklore West Virginia |
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West Virginia Rural conditions |
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West Virginia Social life and customs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index |
| Subject |
Coal miners -- West Virginia.
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Ethnology -- zWest Virginia.
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Folklore -- West Virginia.
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| SUBJECT |
West Virginia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059831 -- Rural conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007670
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West Virginia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059831 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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| LC no. |
95024365 |
| ISBN |
0691011044 (alk. paper) |
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9780691011042 (alk. paper) |
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0691011036 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780691011035 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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