TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rikard,Gabe
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Authority and the Mountaineer in Cormac McCarthy's Appalachia
AV  - PS3563.C337 Z85 2013eb
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Jefferson, N.C.
PB  - McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers
KW  - McCarthy, Cormac,
KW  - Appalachian Region
KW  - In literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: An archeology of authority and Appalachia -- Spatializing conduits: The roads of Appalachia -- Modernizing discipline: Mill villages, metropolises, and mountaineers -- A case of the superlative: Lester Ballard, mountaineers, children of god and men -- The construction and maintenance of an icon, or fantasizing the mountaineer -- Coda: Atavising the mountaineer: The road; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "The author uses Michel Foucault's theories on power, resistance and discipline to analyze the interactions of mountaineers and the authorities who have attempted to "modernize" them. The book shows how Cormac McCarthy manipulates Appalachian regional images while simultaneously engaging in a form of archeology of Appalachian constructs"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10752753
ER  -