Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Tracing Scottish allusions in American discourse on Appalachia -- Appalachia studies comes of age -- Scottish cultural revivals : a sketch and a theory -- Conversation with a cultural missionary : Flora Macdonald Gammon, Waynesville, North Carolina, 17 January 1994 -- Core and periphery : a critique of the internal colonialism model in Scotland and Appalachia -- The thistle and the brier : poetics and identity politics in Scotland and Appalachia -- Self portrait of a cultural activist : a conversation with Hamish Henderson, Edinburgh, 13 June 1996 -- Folk-bashing and cultural self-determination in Scotland, Nova Scotia and Appalachia : looking for constructive alternatives to deconstructionism -- Dinna say Dinna : teachers as agents of linguistic colonialism in Scotland and Appalachia -- Poems make the people: a conversation with Joy Hendry, Edinburgh, 1 July 1996 -- The beginning of a new song : some reflections upon the opening of the new Scottish Parliament -- Conclusion : thinking ocean to ocean.