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Fashioning Character: Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture) (en Inglés)
Lauren S Cardon (Autor)
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Fashioning Character: Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture) (en Inglés) - Lauren S Cardon
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Reseña del libro "Fashioning Character: Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture) (en Inglés)"
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.