04631oam 22007334a 450 99619927840331620230607213613.01-283-26685-797866132668590-87421-457-2(CKB)111056486848404(EBL)287128(OCoLC)476039909(SSID)ssj0000176613(PQKBManifestationID)11168706(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176613(PQKBWorkID)10225607(PQKB)10341511(MiAaPQ)EBC3442740(OCoLC)51729064(MdBmJHUP)muse16350(MiAaPQ)EBC287128(Au-PeEL)EBL287128(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/49950(EXLCZ)9911105648684840420010118d2001 uy 0engurun#---uuuuutxtccrImagined states nationalism, utopia, and longing in oral cultures /edited by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald PorterUtah State University, University Libraries2001Logan, Utah :Utah State University Press,2001.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2012©2001.1 online resource (224 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-87421-412-2 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Introduction; Idealized States; Demonized States; Embodied States; Contributors; IndexAn international ensemble of folklore scholars looks at varied ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively used imagined states of existence-some idealizations, some demonizations-in the construction of identities for themselves and for others. Drawing on oral traditions, especially as represented in traditional ballads, broadsides, and tale collections, the contributors consider fertile landscapes of the mind where utopias overflow with bliss and abundance, stereotyped national and ethnic caricatures define the lives of "others," nostalgia glorifies home and occupation, and idealized and mythological animals serve as cultural icons and guideposts to harmonious social life.Italian Canadian Luisa Del Giudice looks at the rich Italian variants of the traditional gastronomic utopia called Il Paese di Cuccagna, the Land of Cockaigne, "a mythic land of plenty where rivers run with 'milk and honey' (wine, beer, coffee, or rum), food falls like manna from heaven, work is banished, and no one ever grows old" and considers its persistence in immigrant worldview. From New Delhi, Sadhana Naithani examines the "preface-d space" that as India, colonial British authors imagined and passed on to readers in formulaic prefaces to collections of Indian folklore. Reimund Kvideland, of Norway, and Gerald Porter, an English scholar teaching in Finland, show how nineteenth-century Norwegian and English railway navvies (itinerant laborers) idealized their low-status occupations in song. In a second essay, Gerald Porter demonstrates through broadside ballad texts the role of caricatures of the Welsh, Scottish, and Irish in constructing "Englishness." Turks were among the "others" Germans demonized, as Tom Cheesman, who teaches in Wales, explains in his paper on their historical representations in German street ballads. Cozette Griffin-Kremer of France paints a sweeping picture of the landscape of the mind that written and popular traditions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales built around bovine bodies, the human-cow partnership, and the mysteries of domestication, thereby providing conceptions of transcendence of the human condition. Finally, Vaira Freibergs, a scholar and the current president of Latvia, explains the images of longing for idealized childhood homes that married women, exiled by a patrilocal culture, expressed in Latvian folksong.NostalgiaNationalismEthnicityImaginary placesUtopiasOral traditionNostalgia.Nationalism.Ethnicity.Imaginary places.Utopias.Oral tradition.398/.42Porter Geraldauth801391Porter Gerald1946-,Del Giudice Luisa.MdBmJHUPUkMaJRUBOOK996199278403316Imagined states3371527UNISA