Fashioning Character : Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature /

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"This book examines how fashion opens possibilities for characters to explore different facets of their identities in well-known works by Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, and Aleshia Brevard, among others"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cardon, Lauren S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Fashion in literature.
Clothing and dress in literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Native American
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Fashion as freedom
  • Plath, Sexton, and the "new look"
  • The Beat writers and the dawn of street fashion
  • Afrocentric fashion in the writing of Walker, Morrison, and Senna
  • American Indian literature and a legacy of misappropriation
  • Gendered fashion and transgender literature
  • Conclusion: Fashion and fiction of the future.

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