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Class, Culture, And The Agrarian Myth
- Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 64
Af: Tom Brass
Engelsk Paperback
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Class, Culture, And The Agrarian Myth
- Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 64
Af: Tom Brass
Engelsk Paperback

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Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth.

Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged ''from above'' and ''from below'', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, ordinary’ or well-disposed towards those below’, whose interests they share, underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural otherness’ abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
452
ISBN-13:
9781608464890
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
160846489X
Udg. Dato:
1 mar 2016
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
154mm
Forlag:
Haymarket Books
Oplagsdato:
1 mar 2016
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