Appalachia and the "Sacrament of Co-existence": Beyond Post-Colonial Trauma and Regional Identity Traps

Autor/in	Reid, Herbert G.
Titel	Appalachia and the "Sacrament of Co-existence": Beyond Post-Colonial Trauma and Regional Identity Traps
Quelle	In: Journal of Appalachian Studies, 11 (2005) 1-2, S.164-181 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1082-7161
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Area Studies; Criticism; Books; Social Change; Global Approach; Ideology; Identification (Psychology); Geographic Regions; Politics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Landeskunde; Kritik; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Sozialer Wandel; Globales Denken; Ideologie; Politik
Abstract	No doubt the two works of 1978 most important for an emerging Appalachian Studies field were "Colonialism in Modern America: The Appalachian Case" edited by Helen Lewis and her associates and Henry Shapiro's "Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineers in the American Consciousness, 1870-1920." The American region on which these authors focused has been caught up in a major power shift indicated by the flood of studies and debates on "globalization," "global capitalism," and the "transnational corporate state." In this article, the author focuses on Henry Shapiro's important book "Appalachia on Our Mind" and his reaction to it in Appalachian studies, an episode that should illuminate the insider/outsider frame and related problems. Among other things, the author contends that basic questions regarding Appalachia would have to be pursued through the brier patch of disparate notions about the larger society, i.e. American ideology. The author also sums up some of the arguments he had formulated in the form of questions that have become important to him in the twenty-five years or more since he first read "Appalachia on Our Mind." (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Appalachian Studies Association. Marshall University, One John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755. Tel: 304-696-2904; e-mail: asa@marshall.edu; Web site: http://www.appalachianstudies.org/jas/index.php#ORDER.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10