From Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters (1932)

King, Grace

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“…2. Urban writers such as Grace King (1895King ( , 1921King ( , 1932, Robert Tallant (1946, 1947, 1950, Lyle Saxon (1928), and many others erased the line between fiction and non-fiction with accounts that reduced the city to a set of literary and cultural images, a process that had been occurring since the 19th century with the work of William H. Coleman, Lafcadio Hearn, and George Washington Cable, among others. In the work of urban writers, New Orleans appeared as an exceptional place among US cities through a combination of architecture, cuisine, and characteristics of the local population (for overviews, see Boyer, 1994;Starr, 2001 1923-1925-1926-1928-1930-1933-1934.…”

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Selling New Orleans to New Orleans

Gotham

2007

Tourist Studies

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This article examines the process of tourism authenticity using a case study of the rise of tourism in New Orleans during the first half of the 20th century. Tourism authenticity is a process by which tourist modes of staging, visualization, and experience shape and `frame' meanings and assertions of local culture and heritage. Empirically, I examine the place promotion efforts of the New Orleans Association of Commerce to `sell New Orleans to New Orleans', to convince local people that tourism was not only a lucrative economic development strategy but constitutive of civic life and urban culture. I analyze minutes of meetings, reports, and analyses from the Association of Commerce to illustrate how elite conceptions of urban reality were woven into discourses about New Orleans community and authenticity. Theoretically, I show that the study of interplay of place promotion and authenticity construction is a useful strategy for deepening our understanding of the complex intersections of local actions and global processes in the emergence of modern tourism in the United States.

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Selling New Orleans to New Orleans

Gotham

2007

Tourist Studies

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“…Deixar espai a aquest impuls és la manera de deixar que l'escriptura tingui lloc. King (2018), En el marc del taller de micropoemes i metàfores plantejat en aquesta recerca, i tenint en compte el recurs de contraposar dos elements que els servissin d'impuls per començar a escriure, Lakoff i Johnson (1986) ens parlen de la seva concepció de la metàfora com un element que no només és propi de l'imaginari poètic, sinó indestriable del nostre llenguatge quotidià: "hem arribat a la conclusió que la metàfora impregna la vida quotidiana, no solament el llenguatge, sinó també el pensament i l'acció. El nostre sistema conceptual ordinari, en termes del qual pensem i actuem, és fonamentalment de naturalesa metafòrica" (p.39).…”

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La poesia en la quotidianitat mitjançant la realització d’una ruta literària amb alumnat de 1r d’ESO

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Güell Devesa

2024

TempsEducacio

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“…Specifically, the ingredients of New Orleans in destination image included French and Spanish architecture, Creole culture, the Vieux Carre (French Quarter), Mardi Gras, Les Coulisses (French Opera), beautiful oak trees, Spanish moss, voodoo, cities of the dead (above-ground cemeteries), and scenes of romance and mystery. Later writers such as Grace Elizabeth King (1895King ( , 1932, Robert Tallant (1948), and Lyle Saxon (1928) would elaborate on these resonant themes and amplify them to build a veritable cornucopia of culture materials to lure tourists to the city.…”

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Destination New Orleans

Gotham

2007

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This article uses a case study of New Orleans to illustrate the nexus of commodification and rationalization in the development of urban tourism during the first half of the 20th century. Tourism is exemplary of the consumption of space and involves the circulation of people to particular locations to consume local culture, nature, history, or otherness. I examine the role of urban literary writers, visitor guidebooks, and the New Orleans Association of Commerce in constructing a `destination image'. As a collection of symbols and motifs representing a locale, a destination image is a visual cue that acts both as an attraction for potential tourists and as a cultural framework for authenticating the tourists' experience once they arrive in the city. I argue that creating and (re)producing a destination image and assorted urban symbols requires an institutional system or set of formal organizations. Institutions and organizations create the rules, routines, and structures that shape how tourism markets and destination images develop, how actors present and arrange symbols to persuade people to invest in and travel to cities, and how actors develop promotional strategies. Analysis of rationalization and commodification in the production of a destination image offers a unique perspective for understanding tourism as a major consumption practice constituted by a set of `distant' processes and `local' practices.

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From Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters (1932)

Cited by 5 publications

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Selling New Orleans to New Orleans

Selling New Orleans to New Orleans

La poesia en la quotidianitat mitjançant la realització d’una ruta literària amb alumnat de 1r d’ESO

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