Realist Ecstasy : Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature /

Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghos...

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Autor principal: Reckson, Lindsay V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2021]
Colección:Performance and American Cultures ; 2
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Performance in literature.
Race in literature.
Realism in literature.
Religion in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
Anna Julia Cooper.
Frances E. W. Harper.
Ghost Dance.
Hamlin Garland.
James Mooney.
James Weldon Johnson.
Jim Crow.
Nella Larsen.
Pentecostalism.
Reconstruction.
W. E. B. Du Bois.
William Dean Howells.
William Van der Weyde.
affect.
body.
capital punishment.
conversion.
electricity.
ethnography.
gesture.
haunting.
intersectionality.
lynching.
messiah craze.
performance.
photography.
queerness.
realism.
recording.
reenactment.
secularism.
secularization.
settler colonialism.
sexuality.
storefront church.
temporality.
whiteness.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Being Beside
  • 1. Reconstructing Secularisms
  • 2. Archival Enthusiasm
  • 3. The Ghost Dance and Realism's Techno- Spiritual Frontier
  • 4. Touching a Button
  • 5. Born, Again
  • Coda: Behind, Before, Beside
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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