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Jackie under my skin : interpreting an icon / Wayne Koestenbaum.
- Title
- Jackie under my skin : interpreting an icon / Wayne Koestenbaum.
- Author
- Koestenbaum, Wayne
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | CT275.O552 K64 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 291 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Jackie Under My Skin" is a richly original and fascinating investigation into how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed our definitions of personal identity and style. For thirty years we have lived with our internalized images of "Jackie," but until now no writer has definitively explored what it feels like to exist in imaginative and heartfelt connection to this ubiquitous icon. In an elegiac gallery of fantasies and tableaux, Wayne Koestenbaum explains the late First Lady's mesmeric hold on America by anatomizing the myths and metaphors that have attached to her. Analyzing her iconography with both passion and precision, he places stories about Jackie - and photos of Jackie - within the context of literature, film, and the idiosyncratic imagination. Following her into America's dreamwork, far from pious "family values," Wayne Koestenbaum dares to see her as an embodiment of pleasure, a figure of Circean extravagance, and a unique and necessary emblem of that most exhilarating of pursuits: freedom without responsibility. -- publisher's statement.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-291).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Jackie's death -- Jackie watchers, Jackie lovers -- Dream Jackie -- Jackie and transportation -- Astonished Jackie -- Silent Jackie -- Jackie's wealth -- Jackie's hairdos -- Jackie' humiliation -- Jackie's sunglasses and scarf -- Jackie versus Liz -- Jackie and origins -- Jackie and ordinary objects -- Exotic Jackie -- Jackie as housewife -- The Jackie look -- Jackie's madness -- Jackie and repetition -- Passe Jackie -- Jackie's perversity, Jackie's sanctity -- Jackie as a fictional character -- Jackie versus Maria Callas -- Jackie and water, Jackie and wind.
- Jackie's family values -- Jackie as Dandy -- Jackie and drugs -- Jackie and synesthesia -- White Jackie -- Jackie's "I" -- Jackie and the media -- Jackie and apocalypse -- Jackie and duration -- Jackie and space -- Jackie's sublimity -- Jackie's inferno -- Jackie as Diva -- What if Jackie -- Bringing up Jackie -- Jackie's replaceability -- Manhattan and other Jackie memorials.
- ISBN
- 0374284466
- LCCN
- ^^^94024635^
- OCLC
- 31206310
- SCSB-12787151
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library