The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World [electronic resource] /
Cobb, R.editor.
Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection examines how authenticity relates to cultural products, looking closely at how a particular "ethnic" food, or genre of popular music, or indigenous religious belief attains its aura of originality, when all traditional cultural products are invented in a certain time and place.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Artifice of Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction; PART I A Matter of Taste: Authenticity and Innovation in Food Culture; CHAPTER 2 Authenticity, Tourism, and Cajun Cuisine in Lafayette, Louisiana; CHAPTER 3 Food Bureaucracy and the Making of Authentic Pizza; CHAPTER 4 Currying Flavor: Authenticity, Cultural Capital, and the Rise of Indian Food in the United Kingdom; PART II Performing the Real: Mediating Authenticity in Music, Television, and Publishing
CHAPTER 5 Performing Cultural Authenticity in CBS's Good TimesCHAPTER 6 Buying into the Monastic Experience: Are Chant Recordings the Real Thing?; CHAPTER 7 Ancient, Spiritual, and Indian: Exploring Narratives of Authenticity in Modern Yoga; PART III Stereotypes, Clichés, and the Real Thing: Authenticity in Cultural Contact Zones; Chapter 8 Toilets Tell Truth about People: 150 Years of Plumbing for "Real Japan"; CHAPTER 9 Tourists as Primitives? Inverting the Tourist Gaze in The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier; CHAPTER 10 The Database as a Distressed Genre
PART IV Cut, Paste, Authenticate: Literary Studies and the Question of AuthenticityCHAPTER 11 "There Is No Such Thing as Originality Anyway......": Authorship in the Age of Digital Reproduction; CHAPTER 12 "Like in the Gringo Movies": Translatorese and the Global in Roberto Bolaño's 2666; CHAPTER 13 Norman Mailer, Hipsters, and the Authenticity of the White Negro*; CHAPTER 14 Privileged Access: Constructed Memories and the Autobiographical Impulse; PART V Real Politics: The Cultural Politics of Authenticity; CHAPTER 15 Beyond the Infinite Loop? Subjectivity in the Age of the Copy
CHAPTER 16 Real Feminists and Fake FeministsCHAPTER 17 The Narrative Power of Authentic Class Litigation; CHAPTER 18 "That Old School Lonsdale": Authenticity and Clothes in German Skinhead Culture*; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection examines how authenticity relates to cultural products, looking closely at how a particular "ethnic" food, or genre of popular music, or indigenous religious belief attains its aura of originality, when all traditional cultural products are invented in a certain time and place.
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