Creating and Consuming the American South
1st Edition
Published on 7. July 2015
336 pages
978-0-8130-5539-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 "e,the South"e, 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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Martyn Bone | Brian Ward | William A. Link
Creating and Consuming the American South
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07/2015
University Press of Florida
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Content
- Cover
- Creating and Consuming the American South
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- Preface: Understanding the South
- Introduction. Old/New/Post/Real/Global/No South: Paradigms and Scales
- PART I. CREATING AND CONSUMING THE "REAL" SOUTH
- 1. From Appalachian Folk to Southern Foodways: Why Americans Look to the South for Authentic Culture
- 2. God and the MoonPie: Consumption, Disenchantment, and the Reliably Lost Cause
- 3. Toward a Post-postpolitical Southern Studies: On the Limits of the "Creating and Consuming" Paradigm
- PART II. CREATING AND CONSUMING THE SOUTH: CASE STUDIES
- 4. Southern (Dis)Comfort: Creating and Consuming Homosex in the Black South
- 5. Serpents in the Garden: Historic Preservation, Climate Change, and the Postsouthern Plantation
- 6. Creating and Consuming "Hill Country Harmonica": Promoting the Blues and Forging Beloved Community in the Contemporary South
- 7. Pride at Preservation Hall: Tourism, Spectacle, and Musicking in New Orleans Jazz
- 8. Recovering through a Cultural Economy: New Orleans from Katrina to Deepwater Horizon
- 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
- 10. A "Southern, Brown, Burnt Sensibility": Four Saints in Three Acts, Black Spain, and the (Global) Southern Pastoral
- 11. Southern Regionalism and U.S. Nationalism in William Faulkner's State Department Travels
- 12. The Feeling of a Heartless World: Blues Rhythm, Oppositionality, and British Rock Music
- 13. Me and Mrs. Jones: Screening Working-Class Trans-Formations of Southern Family Values
- Afterword: After Authenticity
- List of Contributors
- Index
