Authenticity in North America: Place, Tourism, Heritage, Culture and the Popular Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781138341319 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 206 str.

Jane Lovell; Sam Hitchmough

Opis

This interdisciplinary book addresses the highly relevant debates about authenticity in North America, providing a contemporary re-examination of American culture, tourism and commodification of place.

Spis treści

Introduction Hyper-Authenticity  1. The Kept Weird: US American Weird Fiction and cities  2. Something Like a Circus or a Sewer’: The Thrill and Threat of New York City in American Culture  3. "That Chinese guy is where you go if you want egg foo yung": Construction and Subversion of Exotic Culinary Authenticity in David Wong Louie’s The Barbarians are Coming  4. Good Authentic Vibrations: The Beach Boys, California, and Pet Sounds  5. A Western Skyline I swear I can see: affective critical rurality expressed through contemporary Americana music  6. ‘We Sure Didn’t Know’: Laura Gilpin, Mary Ann Nakai, and Cold War Politics on the Navajo Nation  7. Opening the Memory Boxes: Magical Hypereality, Authenticity and the Haida People  8. The Authenticity Paradox and the Western  9. Playing at Westworld - Gunfighters and Saloon Girls at the Tombstone Helldorado Festival  10. Hidden in the Mountains: Celebrating Swedish Heritage in Rural Pennsylvania  11. The Triumph of Trolls: The Making, Re-making and Commercialization of Heritage Identity  12. ‘It is yet too soon to Write the History of the Revolution’: Fashioning the Memory of Thomas Paine  13. Familiarity breeds content: shaping the nostalgic drift in postbellum plantation life-writing  14. Only Going One Way? Due South’s Role in Sustaining Canadian Television