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University of Virginia Press Fashioning Character: Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)

Name: Fashioning Character: Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
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About the Author Lauren S. Cardon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama and author of Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Virginia). Product Description It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to reach as many consumers as possible. Fashion became a tool for social mobility. During the late twentieth century, the fashion industry offered something even more valuable to its consumers: the opportunity to explore and perform. The works Cardon examines--by Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, and Aleshia Brevard, among others--illustrate how American fashion, with its array of possibilities, has offered a vehicle for curating public personas. Characters explore a host of identities as fashion allows them to deepen their relationships with ethnic or cultural identity, to reject the social codes associated with economic privilege, or to forge connections with family and community. These temporary transformations, or performances, show that identity is a process constantly negotiated and questioned, never completely fixed. Review Fashioning Character breaks new ground in its examination of canonical texts by both male, female, and nonbinary writers in contemporary American literature. A thoughtful exploration of fashion's capacity for self-fashioning and negotiations of gender, sexuality, and nationalism. --Stephanie Harzewski, University of New Hampshire, author of Chick Lit and Postfeminism

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Brand: University of Virginia Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0813945887
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Fashion > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 April 2021
Listed Since: 30 September 2020

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