Inventing Place
Writing Lone Star Rhetorics
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2018
208 pages
978-0-8093-3651-7 (ISBN)
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Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays in Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poiesis, an understanding and composition formed through the collaboration of a body with a particular space. Divided into five sections corresponding to Texas regions, essays consider aesthetics, buildings, environment, food and alcohol, private and public memory, and race and class. Among the topics covered by contributors are the Imagine Austin urban planning initiative, the terroir of Texas barbecue, the racist past of Grand Saline, Texas, Denton, Texas, and authenticity as rhetorical, negative views of Texas and how the state (or any place) is subject to reinvention, social, historical, and economic networks of place and their relationship to the food we eat, and Texas gun culture and working-class character.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Bodies, Place, and Poiesis
- Central Texas
- 1. When You're Pretty
- 2. Figments of a Future Austin: Imagination on the Rise
- 3. Rhetorics of Smoke and Cedar: The Terroir of Texas BBQ
- 4. Drowning at the Poodle Dog
- 5. The Complete History of Parlin Hall (Abridged Version)
- East Texas
- 6. Recirculating Our Racism: Public Memory, Folklore, and Place in East Texas
- 7. Archiving Devils
- North Texas
- 8. Fort Worth by Day, Cow Town by Night, It's All to the West of Adios
- 9. (White Trash) Pantego
- 10. Denton and the Rhetorical Appeal of Authenticity
- 11. Walnut Hill Story: Memory, History, and the Built Environment in the Experience of a Place
- 12. Reconciling Texas
- or, Inventing (a) Place Out of Place
- South Texas
- 13. From Bespoke to Baroque: Folding and Unfolding the Burrito in San Antonio
- 14. Texas without Texas: The Septic Tank Where Houston Became Modern . . . in Paris, Texas
- 15. Eagleville
- 16. We All Remember the Alamo: Materializing the Personal
- West Texas
- 17. Notes from a Texas Gun Show
- 18. El Paso, Plastic Bags, Aesthetics
- 19. Weary Land: The Space and Place of West Texas
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover
