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Product Identifiers

PublisherMcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

ISBN-100786474599

ISBN-139780786474592

eBay Product ID (ePID)159844618

Product Key Features

Number of Pages248 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameAuthority and the Mountaineer in Cormac Mccarthy's Appalachia

SubjectRegional Studies, General, American / General

Publication Year2013

TypeTextbook

AuthorGabe Rikard

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2013-025864

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal813.54

Table Of ContentTable of Contents Abbreviations vi Preface 1 An Historical Prelude: The Whiskey Rebellion 7 Introduction: An Archeology of Authority and Appalachia 21 One. Spatializing Conduits: The Roads of Appalachia 41 Two. Modernizing Discipline: Mill Villages, Metropolises and Mountaineers 86 Three. A Case of the Superlative: Lester Ballard, Mountaineers, Children of God and Men 131 Four. The Construction and Maintenance of Icon, or Fantasizing the Mountaineer 167 Coda: Atavising the Mountaineer: The Road 207 Notes 227 References 229 Index 237

SynopsisUses Michel Foucault's theories on power, resistance and discipline to analyze the interactions of mountaineers and the authorities who have attempted to ""modernise"" them. The book shows how Cormac McCarthy manipulates Appalachian regional images while simultaneously engaging in a form of archeology of Appalachian constructs. Initially grounding the analysis in American history, the book explores the interplay of the dominance/resistance duality., The author uses theories on power, resistance and discipline developed by Michel Foucault to analyze the interactions of mountaineers and the authorities who have attempted to "modernize" them. The book shows how McCarthy manipulates Appalachian images while engaging in a form of archeology of Appalachian constructs. Initially the book explores the interplay of the dominance/resistance duality. Roads provided ways into the mountains for industry and ways out for the mountaineer, cotton mill villages and regional cities served as "disciplined" destinations for Appalachian out-migrants. McCarthy's character Lester Ballard ( Child of God ) represents the epitome of hillbilly delinquency. The author explains how the iconic image of the mountaineer--a notion cultivated by fiction writers, benevolent organizations, and academics--"othered" the mountain people as deviants. The book ends by considering the ways in which The Road returns to the rhetorical and geographical region of his early work, and how it fits into McCarthy's Appalachian oeuvre.

LC Classification NumberPS3563.C337Z85 2013