Screen LibraryFashioning character : style, performance, and identity in contemporary American literature /
"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"--
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University of Virginia Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Charlottesville, Virginia : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cultural frames, framing culture
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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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780813945880 0813945887 9780813945897 0813945895 |
| Index Number: | PS374 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/C268 |
| 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. |