Creating and Consuming the American South

List of Figures

Preface: Understanding the South

Introduction. Old/New/Post/Real/Global/No South: Paradigms and Scales
Martyn Bone

Part I. Creating and Consuming the “Real” South

Chapter 1. From Appalachian Folk to Southern Foodways: Why Americans Look to the South for Authentic Culture
W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Chapter 2. God and the MoonPie: Consumption, Disenchantment, and the Reliably Lost Cause
Scott Romine

Chapter 3. Toward a Post-postpolitical Southern Studies: On the Limits of the “Creating and Consuming” Paradigm
Jon Smith

Part II. Creating and Consuming the South: Case Studies

Chapter 4. Southern (Dis)Comfort: Creating and Consuming Homosex in the Black South
E. Patrick Johnson

Chapter 5. Serpents in the Garden: Historic Preservation, Climate Change, and the Postsouthern Plantation
Michael P. Bibler

Chapter 6. Creating and Consuming “Hill Country Harmonica”: Promoting the Blues and Forging Beloved Community in the Contemporary South
Adam Gussow

Chapter 7. Pride at Preservation Hall: Tourism, Spectacle, and Musicking in New Orleans Jazz
Anne Dvinge

Chapter 8. Recovering through a Cultural Economy: New Orleans from Katrina to Deepwater Horizon
Helen Taylor

Part III. Creating and Consuming the South in Transnational Contexts

Chapter 9. Creating a Multiethnic Gulf South: Vietnamese American Cultural and Economic Visibility before and after Katrina
Frank Cha

Chapter 10. A “Southern, Brown, Burnt Sensibility”: Four Saints in Three Acts, Black Spain, and the (Global) Southern Pastoral
Paige A. McGinley

Chapter 11. Southern Regionalism and U.S. Nationalism in William Faulkner’s State Department Travels
Deborah Cohn

Chapter 12. The Feeling of a Heartless World: Blues Rhythm, Oppositionality, and British Rock Music
Andrew Warnes

Chapter 13. Me and Mrs. Jones: Screening Working-Class Trans-Formations of Southern Family Values
John Howard

Afterword: After Authenticity
Tara McPherson

List of Contributors

Index