TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boyle,Casey Andrew
AU  - Rice,Jenny
TI  - Inventing place: writing Lone Star rhetorics 
SN  - 9780809336517
AV  - P301 .I584 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Carbondale
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Texas
KW  - Place (Philosophy)
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - English language
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: bodies, place, and Poiesis --; When you're pretty --; Figments of a future Austin: imagination on the rise --; Rhetorics of smoke and cedar: the terroir of Texas BBQ --; Drowning at the Poodle Dog --; The complete history of Parlin Hall (abridged version) --; Recirculating our racism: public memory, folklore, and place in East Texas --; Archiving devils --; Fort Worth by day, Cow Town by night, it's all to the West of Adios --; (White trash) Pantego --; Denton and the rhetorical appeal of authenticity --; Walnut Hill Story: memory, history, and the built environment in the experience of a place --; Reconciling Texas: or, inventing (a) place out of place --; From Bespoke to Baroque: folding and unfolding the burrito in San Antonio --; Texas without Texas: the septic tank Where Houston became modern in Paris, Texas --; Eagleville --; We all remember the Alamo: materializing the personal --; Notes from a Texas gun show --; El Paso, plastic bags, aesthetics --; Weary Land: the space and place of West Texas; 2; b
N2  - "Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics offers a sustained but varying examination of the spatial-temporal dynamics that compose place. Bringing together methods and scholars from rhetoric and related disciplines, essays blend personal and scholarly accounts of Texas sites, examining place as an embodied poeisis, a creation formed through the collaboration of a body with a particular space. Divided into five sections corresponding to Texas regions, essays consider a wide range of subjects, including aesthetics, buildings, environment, food and alcohol, private and public memory, and race and class. Among the topics covered by contributors are the Imagine Austin urban planning initiative; the terroir of Texas barbecue; the racist past of Grand Saline, Texas; Denton, Texas, and authenticity as rhetorical; negative views of Texas and how the state (or any place) is subject to reinvention; social, historical, and economic networks of place and their relationship to the food we eat; and Texas gun culture and working-class character. Spanning the wide geography of Texas, essays model methods for examining place in ways that are not reducible to common physical or geographic attributes. Although focused on Texas, Inventing Place offers universal concepts for the study of place, culture, and rhetoric by bringing in the personal alongside the scholarly and demonstrating new approaches to writing"--
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