Inventing place : writing Lone Star rhetorics / edited by Casey Boyle and Jenny Rice.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyle, Casey Andrew, editor.

Rice, Jenny, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Social aspects--Texas.

Rhetoric.

Place (Philosophy).

Language and culture--Texas.

Language and culture.

English language--Texas--Rhetoric.

English language.

Discourse analysis--Social aspects--Texas.

Discourse analysis.

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

English language--Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Social aspects.

Texas.

Physical Description:

vi, 250 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics offers a sustained but varying examination of the spatial-temporal dynamics that compose place. Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poeisis, a creation formed through the collaboration of a body with a particular space. Divided into five sections corresponding to Texas regions, essays consider a wide range of subjects, including 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. Spanning the wide geography of Texas, essays model methods for examining place in ways that are not reducible to common physical or geographic attributes. Although focused on Texas, Inventing Place offers universal concepts for the study of place, culture, and rhetoric by bringing in the personal alongside the scholarly and demonstrating new approaches to writing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Central Texas

1 When You're Pretty / James J. Brown Jr. Brown, James J., Jr. 17

2 Figments of a Future Austin: Imagination on the Rise / Megan Gianfagna Gianfagna, Megan 29

3 Rhetorics of Smoke and Cedar: The Terroir of Texas BBQ / Anna M. "Amy" Young Young, Anna M. "Amy" 38

4 Drowning at the Poodle Dog / Nate Kreuter Kreuter, Nate 47

5 The Complete History of Parlin Hall (Abridged Version) / Casey Boyle Boyle, Casey 59

East Texas

6 Recirculating Our Racism: Public Memory, Folklore, and Place in East Texas / James Chase Sanchez Sanchez, James Chase 75

7 Archiving Devils / Jenny Rice Rice, Jenny 88

North Texas

8 Fort Worth by Day, Cow Town by Night, It's All to the West of Adios / Cynthia Haynes Haynes, Cynthia 99

9 (White Trash) Pantego / Doug Eskew Eskew, Doug 108

10 Denton and the Rhetorical Appeal of Authenticity / Jordan Frith Frith, Jordan 120

11 Walnut Hill Story: Memory, History, and the Built Environment in the Experience of a Place / Michael Odom Odom, Michael 130

12 Reconciling Texas; or, Inventing (a) Place Out of Place / Ryan Skinnell Skinnell, Ryan 139

South Texas

13 From Bespoke to Baroque: Folding and Unfolding the Burrito in San Antonio / William T. Burdette Burdette, William T. 153

14 Texas without Texas: The Septic Tank Where Houston Became Modern ... in Paris, Texas / Victor J. Vitanza Vitanza, Victor J. 168

15 Eagleville / Jennifer D. Carlson Carlson, Jennifer D. 185

16 We All Remember the Alamo: Materializing the Personal / Donna Dunbar-Odom Dunbar-Odom, Donna 198

West Texas

17 Notes from a Texas Gun Show / Barry Brummett Brummett, Barry 211

18 El Paso, Plastic Bags, Aesthetics / Brian McNely McNely, Brian 220

19 Weary Land: The Space and Place of West Texas / Jillian Sayre Sayre, Jillian 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809336500

0809336502

OCLC:

985693911