1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462808303321

Titolo

A Route 66 companion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David King Dunaway ; foreword by Michael Wallis ; illustrations by Robert Waldmire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2012

ISBN

0-292-73573-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DunawayDavid King

WaldmireRobert

Disciplina

810.9/35873

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States Highway 66 Literary collections

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-173).

Nota di contenuto

""Foreword: America's Road by Michael Wallis""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""I. Railroads and the Prehistory of Route 66""; ""Dave Edmunds, Buffalo Hunting on Route 66""; ""Washington Irving, A Tour on the Prairies""; ""Count de Pourtalès, On the Western Tour with Washington Irving""; ""Edward F. Beale, The Journals of the Superintendent of the Wagon World""; ""Michael Amundson, Railroaders' Route 66""; ""Hal G. Evarts, Jr., One Night in the Red Dog Saloon""; ""Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail""; ""Man Susanyatame, Recalling Route 66's Trail of Tears""; ""A Bioregional Approach to Route 66: An Introduction""

""II. Prairie 66: Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas""""Vachel Lindsay, The Santa Fe Trail""; ""Carolyn Wheat, Too Many Midnights""; ""Thomas Wolfe, The Lost Boy""; ""Jay Smith, The Boy: Okie Passage on Route 66""; ""David August, Blind Corner""; ""James H. Cobb, West on 66""; ""III. Plains 66: Oklahoma and Texas""; ""Greg Malak, Working with Will""; ""Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers""; ""Lance Henson, Back Road 66""; ""Karen Hesse, Wild Boy of the Road""; ""Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book""; ""Gary Phillips, '53 Buick""; ""Edmond Threatt, Black on 66""

""Michael Wallis, Mr. Route 66""""Robert M. Davis, Kicking 66""; ""Delbert Trew, On Route 66 in Texas""; ""Stanley Marsh III, Cadillac Ranch""; ""IV. Mountain 66: New Mexico and Arizona""; ""Raymond Wierth and Joe Miller, Mining Along 66""; ""Harvey Fergusson, Hot



Saturday""; ""Paul Horgan, The Thin Mountain Air""; ""Mary Toya, Laguna Exile""; ""John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath""; ""Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony""; ""Lucille Fletcher, The Hitch-Hiker""; ""Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare""; ""Rudolfo Anaya, Hispanic on Route 66""; ""V. Desert and Coastal 66: California""

""Ed Gorman, Gunslinger""""Raymond Chandler, The High Window""; ""Louis Owens, Indian Farm-Workers on 66""; ""Ry Cooder, The Music of 66""; ""Robert Ervin, Soul in the Desert""; ""Earlene Fowler, Blue Time""; ""Sylvia Plath, Sleep in the Mojave Desert""; ""Joan Didion, Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream""; ""Ross MacDonald, Sleeping Beauty""; ""VI. The Future of 66""; ""Peter Friedman, A Rocket Scientist Looks at Route 66's Future""; ""Fredric Brown, Rogue in Space""; ""Aldous Huxley, Brave New World""; ""A Select Route 66 Bibliography""; ""Credits""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456813603321

Titolo

Discourses of endangerment [[electronic resource] ] : ideology and interest in the defence of languages / / edited by Alexandre Duchêne and Monica Heller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2007

ISBN

1-283-27149-4

9786613271495

1-4411-1117-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Advances in sociolinguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

HellerMonica

DuchêneAlexandre

Disciplina

306.44

417.7

Soggetti

Endangered languages

Linguistic change

Sociolinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Discourses of endangerment: Sociolinguistics, globalization and social order Monica Heller and Alexandre Duchene; Chapter 2: Defending diversity: Staking out a common global interest? Shaylih Muehlmann; Chapter 3: Indigenous language endangerment and the unfinished business of nation states Donna Patrick; Chapter 4: Discourses of endangerment: Contexts and consequences of essentializing discourses Alexandra Jaffe; Chapter 5: Who wants to save 'le patois d'Évoíéne'? Raphaël Maîltre and Marinette Matthey

Chapter 6: Frangais, acadien, acadjonne: Competing discourses on language preservation along the shores of the Baie Sainte-Marie Annette Boudreau and Use DuboisChapter 7: The future of Catalan: Language endangerment and nationalist discourses in Catalonia Joan Pujolar; Chapter 8: Language endangerment, war and peace in Ireland and Northern Ireland Tony Crowley; Chapter 9: Voices of endangerment: A language ideological debate on the Swedish language Tommaso M. Milani

Chapter 10: Defending English in an English-dominant world: The Ideology of the 'Official English'movement in the United States Ronald Schmidt, SrChapter 11: Protecting French: The view from France Claudine Moïse; Chapter 12: Embracing diversity for the sake of unity: Linguistic hegemony and the pursuit of total Spanish José del Valle; Chapter 13: Language endangerment and verbal hygiene: History, morality and politics Deborah Cameron; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Current academic discussions and public debates about language frequently focus on the importance of defending languages against various kinds of dangers. Many of these current debates attach great importance to linguistic diversity. The debates focus on defending institutionalized languages against multilingualism, or conversely defending minority languages against the incursion of larger ones, especially the spread of English. In both cases, languages are constructed as autonomous wholes, held to need defending against attack. This book challenges such a view of language, to argue that the d



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797908103321

Autore

Ponzanesi Sandra

Titolo

Postcolonial Transitions in Europe [[electronic resource] ] : Contexts, Practices and Politics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015

ISBN

1-78348-447-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (437 p.)

Collana

Frontiers of the Political

Altri autori (Persone)

ColpaniGianmaria

Disciplina

325/.3094

Soggetti

Postcolonialism - Social conditions - Europe

Social change - Social aspects - Europe

Immigrants - Social conditions - Europe

Multiculturalism - Europe

Cosmopolitanism - Europe

Imperialism - Europe

Europe

Colonialism & Postcolonialism

Political Science

Law, Politics & Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 300; Pages:301 to 325; Pages:326 to 350; Pages:351 to 375; Pages:376 to 400; Pages:401 to 425; Pages:426 to 437

Sommario/riassunto

A comparative and multidisciplinary exploration of Europe's colonial past in relation to present multicultural, cosmopolitan and/or neocolonial experiences, assessing political, cultural and mediatized transitions