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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.

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1. Introduction: The Artifice of Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Russell Cobb PART I: A MATTER OF TASTE: AUTHENTICITY AND INNOVATION IN FOOD CULTURE 2. Searching for Authenticity: Cajun Food and a ´Golden Age" of Cajun History; Michael S. Martin 3. Food Bureaucracy: Pizza Authentication by the European Union; Rossella Ceccarini 4. Currying Flavour: Authenticity, Cultural Capital, and the Rise of Indian Food in the United Kingdom; Stephen A. Fielding PART II: PERFORMING THE REAL: MEDIATING AUTHENTICITY IN MUSIC, TELEVISION, AND PUBLISHING 5. Performing Cultural Authenticity in CBS´s Good Times ; Nicola Mann 6. Buying into the Monastic Experience: Are Chant Recordings the Real Thing?; Amanda Haste 7. The Discourse of Authenticity in Yoga Journal ; Laura Christine Graham PART III: STEROTYPES, CLICHÉS, AND THE REAL THING: AUTHENTICITY IN CULTURAL CONTACT ZONES 8. From the Chrysanthemum Throne to the Porcelain Throne: Anglo-American Tourists and the Japanese Toilet; Gavin James Campbell 9. Tourists as Primitives? Inverting the Tourist Gaze in The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier; Jeannine M. Pitas 10. The Database as a Distressed Genre; John Venecek PART IV: CUT, PASTE, AUTHENTICATE: LITERARY STUDIES AND THE QUESTION OF AUTHENTICITY 11. ´There Is No Such Thing as Originality Anyway. . . ´: Authorship in the Age of Digital Reproduction; Kaja Marczewska 12. Like in the Gringo Movies: Parodic Translation in Roberto Bola¤o´s 2666 ; Juan Meneses 13. Norman Mailer, Hipsters, and the Authenticity of the White Negro; Katharine Bausch 14. Authenticity as Currency in the Contemporary American Memoir; Katherine Edwards PART V: REAL POLITICS: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF AUTHENTICITY 15. Beyond the Infinite Loop? Subjectivity in the Age of the Copy; James Block 16. Real Feminists and Fake Feminists: The Charge of Inauthenticity in Responses to Judith Butler; Kathryn Telling 17. Authenticity, Existentialism, and the American Exception of Rule 23; Michael Lopez 18. That Old School Lonsdale: Authenticity and Clothes in Streetpunk and Skinhead Culture; Aimar Ventsel

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´The idea of authenticity is an important one to explore in an academic setting and The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World will be a useful tool in cultural and media studies, anthropology, and food studies. What really sets this edited volume apart is the inclusion of scholars who are not in academia - this adds a nice, contextualized angle in the fields of music, law, information studies, and museums.´ - Jessica Mudry, Ryerson University, Canada

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