Creating and Consuming the American South
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This book explores how an eclectic selection of narratives and images of the American South have been created and consumed. The thirteen essays move beyond both traditional accounts of southern identity as either declining or enduring, and more recent postmodernist accounts of the South as imagined or invented. Instead, the contributors emphasize how narratives and images of "the South" have real social, political, and economic ramifications, and that they register at various local, regional, national, and transnational scales.
Featuring distinguished scholars writing from a wide range of multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives?history, literary studies, performance studies, popular music, and queer studies?the volume both challenges and expands on established understandings of how, when, where, and why ideas of the South have been developed and disseminated.
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List of Figures vii
Preface: Understanding the South ix
Introduction. Old/New/Post/Real/Global/No South: Paradigms and Scales 1
Martyn Bone
Part I. Creating and Consuming the ?Real? South
1. From Appalachian Folk to Southern Foodways: Why Americans Look to the South for Authentic Culture 27
W. Fitzhugh Brundage
2. God and the MoonPie: Consumption, Disenchantment, and the Reliably Lost Cause 49
Scott Romine
3. Toward a Post-postpolitical Southern Studies: On the Limits of the ?Creating and Consuming? Paradigm 72
Jon Smith
Part II. Creating and Consuming the South: Case Studies
4. Southern (Dis)Comfort: Creating and Consuming Homosex in the Black South 97
E. Patrick Johnson
5. Serpents in the Garden: Historic Preservation, Climate Change, and the Postsouthern Plantation 117
Michael P. Bibler
6. Creating and Consuming ?Hill Country Harmonica?: Promoting the Blues and Forging Beloved Community in the Contemporary South 139
Adam Gussow
7. Pride at Preservation Hall: Tourism, Spectacle, and Musicking in New Orleans Jazz 158
Anne Dvinge
8. Recovering through a Cultural Economy: New Orleans from Katrina to Deepwater Horizon 178
Helen Taylor
Part III. Creating and Consuming the South in Transnational Contexts
9. Creating a Multiethnic Gulf South: Vietnamese American Cultural and Economic Visibility before and after Katrina 203
Frank Cha
10. A ?Southern, Brown, Burnt Sensibility?: Four Saints in Three Acts, Black Spain, and the (Global) Southern Pastoral 226
Paige A. McGinley
11. Southern Regionalism and U.S. Nationalism in William Faulkner's State Department Travels 248
Deborah Cohn
12. The Feeling of a Heartless World: Blues Rhythm, Oppositionality, and British Rock Music 268
Andrew Warnes
13. Me and Mrs. Jones: Screening Working-Class Trans-Formations of Southern Family Values 289
John Howard
Afterword: After Authenticity 309
Tara McPherson
List of Contributors 325
Index 329
