The wedding complex : forms of belonging in modern American culture / / Elizabeth Freeman

• Autore: Freeman Elizabeth <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.509355; 813.509355
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The wedding complex
• ISBN: 9786613064189; 9781283064187; 1283064189; 9780822384007; 0822384000
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910955053703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.