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The wedding complex : forms of belonging in modern American culture

Title
The wedding complex : forms of belonging in modern American culture / Elizabeth Freeman.
Author
Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

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Description
xix, 288 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Series Q
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 03-158
ISBN
  • 0822329530 (acid-free paper)
  • 0822329891 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2002003196
OCLC
49320314
Author
Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-
Title
The wedding complex : forms of belonging in modern American culture / Elizabeth Freeman.
Imprint
Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Series
Series Q
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 03-158
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