LEADER 04481nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910142524503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-26685-7 010 $a9786613266859 010 $a0-87421-457-2 035 $a(CKB)111056486848404 035 $a(EBL)287128 035 $a(OCoLC)476039909 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176613 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11168706 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176613 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10225607 035 $a(PQKB)10341511 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442740 035 $a(OCoLC)51729064 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16350 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC287128 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL287128 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/49950 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486848404 100 $a20010118d2001 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aImagined states $enationalism, utopia, and longing in oral cultures /$fedited by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter 210 $aLogan, Utah $cUtah State University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (224 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87421-412-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Introduction; Idealized States; Demonized States; Embodied States; Contributors; Index 330 $aAn 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. 606 $aOral tradition 606 $aUtopias 606 $aImaginary places 606 $aEthnicity 606 $aNationalism 606 $aNostalgia 615 0$aOral tradition. 615 0$aUtopias. 615 0$aImaginary places. 615 0$aEthnicity. 615 0$aNationalism. 615 0$aNostalgia. 676 $a398/.42 701 $aDel Giudice$b Luisa$0466626 701 $aPorter$b Gerald$f1946-$0801391 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910142524503321 996 $aImagined states$94203301 997 $aUNINA