Inventing Place: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics
Inventing Place offers a sustained but varying examination of the multiple spatial-temporal dynamics that compose place. Bringing together multiple methods and scholars from across rhetoric and related disciplines, the chapters blend personal and scholarly accounts of sites in Texas to offer an examination of place as an embodied poiesis. Transversing across the wide geography of Texas, the book’s chapters model methods to examine place in ways that are not reducible to common physical or geographic attributes. While centered in Texas, Lone Star Rhetoric offers advances in the study of place, culture, and rhetoric by bringing in the personal alongside the scholarly and exhibiting multiple methods.
Table of Contents
Introduction –Writing, Place, Poiesis
Casey Boyle & Jenny Rice
Central Texas
Chapter 1 – “When You’re Pretty”
James J. Brown, Jr
Chapter 2 – “Figments of a Future Austin”
Megan Gianfagna
Chapter 3 – “Rhetorics of Smoke and Cedar: The Terroir of Texas BBQ”
Amy Young
Chapter 4 – “Drowning at the Poodle Dog”
Nate Kreuter
Chapter 5 – “The Complete History of Parlin Hall (Abridged Version)”
Casey Boyle
East Texas
Chapter 6 -“Recirculating our Racism: Public Memory, Folklore, and Place in East Texas”
James Chase Sanchez
Chapter 7 – “Archiving Devils”
Jenny Rice
North Texas
Chapter 8 – “Fort Worth by Day, Cowtown by Night, It’s all to the West of Adios”
Cynthia Haynes
Chapter 9 – “(White Trash) Pantego”
Doug Eskew
Chapter 10 – “Denton, Texas and the Rhetorical Appeal of Authenticity”
Jordan Frith
Chapter 11 – “Walnut Hill Story: Memory, History, and the Built Environment in the
Experience of a Place”
Michael Odom
Chapter 12 – “Reconciling Texas; or Inventing (a) Place Out of Place”
Ryan Skinnell
South Texas
Chapter 13 – “From Bespoke to Baroque: Folding and Unfolding the Burrito in San Antonio”
William Burdette
Chapter 14 – “Texas without Texas: The Septic Tank where Houston became Modern . . . in Paris, Texas”
Victor Vitanza
Chapter 15 – “Eagleville”
Jennifer D. Carlson
Chapter 16 – “We All Remember the Alamo: Materializing the Personal”
Donna Dunbar-Odom
West Texas
Chapter 17 – “Notes from a Texas Gun Show”
Barry Brummett
Chapter 18 – “El Paso, Plastic Bags, Aesthetics”
Brian McNely
Chapter 19 – “Weary Land: the Space and Place of West Texas”
Jillian Sayre