The New Southern Studies and Rethinking the Question, “Is There Still a South?”

Ownby, Ted

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“…In fact, the so-called New Southern Studies draws on multidisciplinary perspectives to complicate traditional renderings of the American South as isolated, exceptional, and static (Monteith 2007; Ward 2014). Much of this work has positioned the U.S. South in hemispheric and global contexts (Ownby 2015) while not losing sight of the South’s relative liminality and contradictions (Aboul-Ela 2006; J. Smith and Cohn 2004).…”

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“Our” Culinary Heritage

Passidomo

2017

Humanity & Society

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This article develops the concept of gastrodiplomacy—or the use of food to enhance a region’s brand and image—through analysis of two cookbooks: Heritage, by Sean Brock, and Peru: The Cookbook, by Gastón Acurio. Each of these celebrity chefs mobilizes diversity and multiculturalism rhetorically to suggest that contemporary foodways are an authentic portal to racial harmony and inclusion. I argue that these chefs’ social position as men of European descent perpetuates the “white gaze” of contemporary public engagement with cuisine and foodways because the historic and contemporary contributions of marginalized groups become narrative props rather than authentic voices. By focusing on two sites—Peru and the American South—this article demonstrates the function of gastrodiplomacy as a form of soft power that rhetorically undermines racial and class hegemonies while practically reinforcing them. The historical and social contexts of these two regions demand an analysis that incorporates discussion of the connections among foodways, culture, place, and power and consideration of linkages between the U.S. South and the Global South. From a sociological perspective, this article demonstrates the ways in which contemporary food movements often perform rhetorical maneuvers that obfuscate inequality by using white male voices to present foodways as common and universal.

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“Our” Culinary Heritage

Passidomo

2017

Humanity & Society

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A History of the Literature of the U.S. South

2021

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A History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, the Agrarians, Cormac McCarthy), but a substantial portion of the work foregrounds the achievements of African American writers like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sarah Wright to address the multiracial and transnational dimensions of this literary formation. Theoretically informed and historically aware, the volume's contributors collectively demonstrate how southern literature constitutes an aesthetic, cultural and political field that richly repays examination from a variety of critical perspectives.

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2021

A History of the Literature of the U.S. South

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The New Southern Studies and Rethinking the Question, “Is There Still a South?”

Cited by 30 publications

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“Our” Culinary Heritage

“Our” Culinary Heritage

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