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- Renewing the American Narrative
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- Renewing the American narrative.
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- Introduction: J.D. Salinger-An Undercover Story
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Contents
- Intro -- Preface -- Praise for Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in America since 1772 -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Welcome to the Twilight Zone -- Moveable Fictions-Cultural (Dis)Unity and Boundary Transgression -- The Designs of Literary and Cultural Practice -- Design Thinking and the Cultural Field of 'America' -- The Longue Durée of Moveable Designs in American Cultural History -- Part I: Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2: Moveable Designs: Liminal Aesthetics and Cultural Production
- Designing Hemingway's A Moveable Feast -- America as Fiction-Literature as Performance -- Liminal Aesthetics and Liquid Modernity -- Culture as Design-The (Not So) Secret Lives of Aesthetic Objects -- Part II: Contexts -- Chapter 3: TransAmerica: Cultural Hybridity and Transgendered Desire from the Colonial Era to Modernity -- Introduction: Heterogeneity and Transgendered Desire -- The Making of 'America': From the Colonial Era to the Nation State -- Revolutionary Compacts: Transgendered Imagery and the Invention of 'Columbia' -- Conclusion: From Transnational America to Transnation
- Chapter 4: The 'American in Chains': (Cons)Piracy and the Specter of North Africa in U.S. Barbary Captivity Narratives -- Introduction: North Africa in the Early U.S. Cultural Imagination -- The Specter of Algiers in Barbary Captivity Narratives -- Algiers as a Counter-Image to the Early U.S. Republic in The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania -- Spaces of Imperialism in Slaves in Algiers and The Algerine Captive -- Conclusion: U.S. Exceptionalism and the Birth of the Orient as America's Other
- Chapter 5: Open Doors, Closed Spaces: The Transatlantic Imaginary in American Urban Writing from the Post-Revolutionary Era to Modernism -- Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Cross-Atlantic Mapmaking -- From Open City to Shrinking City -- The Labyrinthine Aesthetics of the Walking City -- Open Doors and Walled Streets: Atlantic Cities as Imagined Landscapes -- Conclusion: Shades of the Open City in U.S. Transatlantic Writing -- Part III: Case Studies -- Chapter 6: White Bo(d)y in Wonderland: Cultural Alterity and Sexual Desire in Tod Browning's Where East Is East (1929)
- Introduction: Essentialist Topographies-Where East Is East, and West Is West -- The Codes of Colonial Discourse -- Economies of Stereotyping -- Metonymic Displacement and Ethnic Masquerade -- Metaphysical Condensation and Animal Imagery -- Fetishization of the Orient -- Allegories of (De-)Historicization -- Comic Ethnicity and Explosive Body Language -- Conclusion: The Uses and Abuses of Orientalist Imagery -- Chapter 7: Cinematic Literature: Intermedial Aesthetics, Juvenile Rebellion, and Carnal Subjectivity in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
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- 10.1007/978-3-031-13611-5
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- om2944428526
- Author
Brandt, Stefan L., 1976-
- Title
Moveable designs, liminal aesthetics, and cultural production in America since 1772 / Stefan L. Brandt.
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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Renewing the American Narrative
Renewing the American narrative.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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Print version: Brandt, Stefan L. Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in America Since 1772 Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031136108
Print version: BRANDT, STEFAN L. MOVEABLE DESIGNS, LIMINAL AESTHETICS, AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN AMERICA SINCE 1772. [S.l.] : PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2022 3031136101
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10.1007/978-3-031-13611-5 doi