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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cardon, Lauren S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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