The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World

  • Editors
  • Russell Cobb
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: The Artifice of Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction

    1. Introduction: The Artifice of Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction
      Russell Cobb
      Pages 1-9

  3. A Matter of Taste: Authenticity and Innovation in Food Culture

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 11-11
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    2. Authenticity, Tourism, and Cajun Cuisine in Lafayette, Louisiana
      Michael S. Martin
      Pages 13-22
    3. Food Bureaucracy and the Making of Authentic Pizza
      Rossella Ceccarini
      Pages 23-34
    4. Currying Flavor: Authenticity, Cultural Capital, and the Rise of Indian Food in the United Kingdom
      Stephen A. Fielding
      Pages 35-52

  4. Performing the Real: Mediating Authenticity in Music, Television, and Publishing

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 53-53
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    2. Performing Cultural Authenticity in CBS’s Good Times
      Nicola Mann
      Pages 55-68
    3. Buying into the Monastic Experience: Are Chant Recordings the Real Thing?
      Amanda J. Haste
      Pages 69-84
    4. Ancient, Spiritual, and Indian: Exploring Narratives of Authenticity in Modern Yoga
      Laura Christine Graham
      Pages 85-100

  5. Stereotypes, Clichés, and the Real Thing: Authenticity in Cultural Contact Zones

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 101-101
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    2. Toilets Tell Truth about People: 150 Years of Plumbing for “Real Japan”
      Gavin James Campbell
      Pages 103-121
    3. Tourists as Primitives? Inverting the Tourist Gaze in The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
      Jeannine M. Pitas
      Pages 123-137
    4. The Database as a Distressed Genre
      John Venecek
      Pages 139-154

  6. Cut, Paste, Authenticate: Literary Studies and the Question of Authenticity

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 155-155
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    2. “There Is No Such Thing as Originality Anyway …”: Authorship in the Age of Digital Reproduction
      Kaja Marczewska
      Pages 157-173
    3. “Like in the Gringo Movies”: Translatorese and the Global in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
      Juan Meneses
      Pages 175-185
    4. Norman Mailer, Hipsters, and the Authenticity of the White Negro
      Katharine Bausch
      Pages 187-203
    5. Privileged Access: Constructed Memories and the Autobiographical Impulse
      Katherine Edwards
      Pages 205-218

  7. Real Politics: The Cultural Politics of Authenticity

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 219-219
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

capital culture Europe European Union (EU) innovation politics television Tradition

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