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

Introduction Hyper-Authenticity Jane Lovell and Sam HitchmoughChapter One The Kept Weird: US American Weird Fiction and cities MC McGradyChapter Two Something Like a Circus or a Sewer’: The Thrill and Threat of New York City in American CultureKeith McDonald and Wayne JohnsonChapter Three "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 ComingJiachen ZhangChapter Four Good Authentic Vibrations: The Beach Boys, California, and Pet Sounds Christopher KirkbyChapter Five A Western Skyline I swear I can see: affective critical rurality expressed through contemporary Americana music.Keith HalfacreeChapter Six ‘We Sure Didn’t Know’: Laura Gilpin, Mary Ann Nakai, and Cold War Politics on the Navajo NationLouise SiddonsChapter Seven Opening the Memory Boxes: Magical Hypereality, Authenticity and the Haida People Jane LovellChapter Eight The Authenticity Paradox and the WesternKen FoxChapter Nine Playing at Westworld - Gunfighters and Saloon Girls at the Tombstone Helldorado FestivalWarwick Frost and Jennifer LaingChapter Ten Hidden in the Mountains: Celebrating Swedish Heritage in Rural PennsylvaniaKatherine BurlingameChapter Eleven The Triumph of Trolls: The Making, Re-making and Commercialization of Heritage IdentityAnn Smart Martin. Cortney Anderson-Kramer, and Jared L. SchmidtChapter Twelve ‘It is yet too soon to Write the History of the Revolution’: Fashioning the Memory of Thomas PaineKrysten E. Blackstone Chapter Thirteen Familiarity breeds content: shaping the nostalgic drift in postbellum plantation life-writingDavid AndersonChapter Fourteen Only Going One Way? Due South’s Role in Sustaining Canadian Television Linda Knowles