Berlant The Female Complaint

The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8916-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

A literary critical and historical chronicle of womens culture in the United States from 1830 to the present, by a leading Americanist.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berlant, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Introduction: Intimacy, Publicity, and Femininity 1

1. Poor Eliza 33

2. Pax Americana: The Case of Show Boat 69

3. National Brands, National Body: Imitation of Life 107

4. Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation 145

5. Remembering Love, Forgetting Everything Else: Now, Voyager 169

6. "It's Not the Tragedies That Kill Us, It's the Messes": Femininity, Formalism, and Dorothy Parker 207

7. The Compulsion to Repeat Femininity: Landscape for a Good Woman and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil 233

Overture/Aperture: Showboat 1988—The Remake 265

Notes 281

Bibliography 319

Index 347

Über Autor(innen)

Lauren Berlant is the George M. Pullman Professor of English and Chair of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship, also published by Duke University Press, and The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life. She is the editor of Compassion; Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest (with Lisa Duggan); and Intimacy.