Make it Work: 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion

ISBN-13: 9781032093024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 184 str.

Jan Ellyn Goggans

Opis

Drawing on cultural materialism and its connection to the cultural forms of objects, including apparel, this book provides readers a new understanding of the aims of American writers, and the desires of their readers.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part One: Fashion in Fiction; Fiction as Fashion  1. Edith Wharton: Fashioning White Privilege as Commodification, Consumption, and Corruption.  2. Margaret Mitchell: Fashioning A-Historical and Anti-Canonical White Modernism.  3. Toni Morrison: Re fashioning white privilege  Part Two: Scripting Style and Signifyng Scripts  4. "Fashioning Color: Skin-tone Discrimination and Anglo Normative Passing"  5. "Fashioning Class: Creating Canonical Costume"  6. "Fashioning the Home: Deploying Domesticity and The Saturated Home"  7. "Fashioning the Self: Sewing, Designing, and Dressed in Dreams"  8. "Re-fashioning Age"  Conclusion

O autorze

Dr. Jan Ellyn Goggans is an Associate Professor of Literature & Language, Humanities & World Cultures at the University of California, Merced.