Creating and consuming the American South / edited by Martyn Bone, Brian Ward and William A. Link.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bone, Martyn, 1974- editor.

Ward, Brian, 1961- editor.

Link, William A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism--Southern States.

Regionalism.

Southern States.

Southern States--History.

History.

Southern States--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Social history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]

Summary:

This volume explores the American South's imagery, mythology, ideas, and stories and how these constructions are created and then consumed by both residents and tourists.

Contents:

Preface: Understanding the South

Introduction: Old/new/post/real/global/no South: paradigms and scales / Martyn Bone

Creating and consuming the "real" South

From Appalachian folk to Southern Foodways: Why Americans look to the South for authentic culture / W. Fitzhugh Brundage

God and the Moonpie: consumption, disenchantment, and the reliably lost cause / Scott Romine

Toward a post-postpolitical Southern studies: on the limits of the "creating and consuming" paradigm / Jon Smith

Creating and consuming the South: case studies

Southern (dis)comfort: creating and consuming homosex in the Black South / E. Patrick Johnson

Serpents in the garden: historic preservation, climate change, and the postsouthern plantation / Michael P. Bibler

Creating and consuming "Hill Country harmonica": promoting the blues and forging beloved community in the contemporary South / Adam Gussow

Pride at Preservation Hall: tourism, spectacle, and musicking in New Orleans jazz / Anne Dvinge

Recovering through a cultural economy: New Orleans from Katrina to Deepwater Horizon / Helen Taylor

Creating and consuming the South in transnational contexts

Creating a multiethnic Gulf South: Vietnamese American cultural and economic visibility before and after Katrina / Frank Cha

A "Southern, brown, burnt sensibility": Four Saints in three acts, Black Spain, and the (global) Southern pastoral / Paige A. McGinley

Southern regionalism and U.S. nationalism in William Faulkner's state department travels / Deborah Cohn

The feeling of a heartless world: blues rhythm, oppositionality, and British rock music / Andrew Warnes

Me and Mrs. Jones: screening working-class trans-formations of southern family values / John Howard

Afterword: After authenticity / Tara McPherson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813060699

0813060699

OCLC:

889164928