American Carnival
Seeing and Reading American Culture
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2001
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-313-31513-8 (ISBN)
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-313-31513-8 (ISBN)
Traditionally, the carnival mode in Europe offers a suspension of time and ordinary social conventions; however, through the presentation and representation of that which is deemed exotic and unconventional, American carnival proposes an alternative landscape. While other authors have generally focused on European manifestations of the carnival, McGowan identifies and analyzes a particularly American form of the carnival, which systematically operates to codify race and space within the United States. Through an analysis of overt carnival forms, such as minstrel shows, World's Fairs, and Coney Island, McGowan demonstrates how America reads society and culture through a dualistic vision contoured by race, class, ethnic, and gender concerns. American exhibitions of Otherness are constructed within, and interpreted through, an economy of spectacular display and punishment, in which the normative position of whiteness is opposed by manipulated representations of Other identities, such as freaks and monsters, blacks, Native Americans, and other minority groups.
The volume explores how such carnivalizations of America's racial faces and social spaces extend beyond overt spectacles and constitute a continuous process of encoded readings of social position. The book examines a range of texts and cultural events from the 19th and 20th centuries to identify the operations and mutations of American carnival forms, including literary works by such authors as Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Bellow.
The volume explores how such carnivalizations of America's racial faces and social spaces extend beyond overt spectacles and constitute a continuous process of encoded readings of social position. The book examines a range of texts and cultural events from the 19th and 20th centuries to identify the operations and mutations of American carnival forms, including literary works by such authors as Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Bellow.
PHILIP MCGOWAN is Lecturer in American Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has previously taught at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. He has published on a range of topics, including temperance literature, Middle Generation poetry, Saul Bellow, and Raymond Carver.
Preface
Introducing American Carnival
19th-Century Carnival
20th-Century Carnival
Expatriated American Carnival between the Wars
Performing Carnivals
Revisiting the Fair: American Carnival after 1950--From Algren to Auster
Afterword
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.7.2001 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Contributions to the Study of American Literature |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-313-31513-2 / 0313315132 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-313-31513-8 / 9780313315138 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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