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Autore |
Freeman Elizabeth <1966-> |
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Titolo |
The wedding complex [[electronic resource] ] : forms of belonging in modern American culture / / Elizabeth Freeman |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-06418-9 |
9786613064189 |
0-8223-8400-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (311 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Weddings in literature |
Same-sex marriage - United States |
Popular culture - United States |
Sexual orientation in literature |
Weddings in motion pictures |
Weddings in popular culture |
Weddings - United States |
Culture in motion pictures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Love among the ruins -- The we of me : The member of the wedding's novel alliances -- "That troth which failed to plight" : race, the wedding, and kin-aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom! -- "A diabolical circle for the divell to daunce in" : foundational weddings and the problem of civil marriage -- Honeymoon with a stranger : private couplehood and the making of the national subject -- The immediate country, or, heterosexuality in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Coda. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A queer literary and cultural studies examination of the wedding ceremony (rather than the resulting marriages) which finds it to be a space of more open possibilities than might normally be supposed. |
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