The Wedding Complex - Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture

Sommario

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Love among the Ruins

2. The We of Me: The Member of the Wedding’s Novel Alliances

3. “That Troth Which Failed to Plight”: Race, the Wedding, and Kin Aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom!

4. “A Diabolical Circle for the Divell to Daunce In”: Foundational Weddings and the Problem of Civil Marriage

5. Honeymoon with a Stranger: Private Couplehood and the Making of the National Subject

6. The Immediate Country, or, Heterosexuality in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Coda

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Info autore

Elizabeth Freeman

Riassunto

Explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. This book finds that weddings - as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation - are sites for imagining and enacting forms of social intimacy other than monogamous heterosexuality.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: FREEMAN, Elizabeth Freeman
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2002
• EAN: 9780822329893
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2989-3
• Pagine: 312
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 227 mm x 22 mm
• Peso: 503 g
• Serie: Series Q; Series Q
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese