Research Catalog

Title

Ceremonies and spectacles : performing American culture / edited by Teresa Alves, Teresa Cid, Heinz Ickstadt ; with contributions from Charles Altieri ... [et al.].

Publication

Amsterdam : VU University Press, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alves, Teresa Ferreira de Almeida
• Cid, Teresa
• Ickstadt, Heinz
• Altieri, Charles, 1942-
• European Association for American Studies. Conference (1998 : Lisbon, Portugal)

Description

426 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

European contributions to American studies ; 44

Uniform Title

European contributions to American studies 44.

Subject

• Performing arts > United States > Congresses
• Nationalism > United States > Congresses
• Ethnicity > United States > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers presented at the Conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), held in Lisbon, Portugal, Apr. 3-6, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The transparent eyeball and other American spectacles / Maria Irene Ramalho Sousa Santos -- The dubious spectacle of collective identity / Herbert Blau -- Reenactments: "Ghost town" and the American search for a sustaining mythology / Robert Coover -- Domestic theater: parlor entertainments as spectacle, 1840-1880 / Robert Lewis -- The emergence of an American mentality: the cultural work of antebellum stage entertainments / John G. Blair -- The cultural significance of opera in nineteenth-century America / Andrea Mariani -- The americanization of the world and the spectacle of the American exhibits at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition / Robert Rydell -- Americanization and cultural imperialism: American mass culture and the European sense of history / Rob Kroes -- New England Forefather's Day celebrations between the American Revolution and the Civil War / Udo Hebel --^
• Funereal pageantry and national unity: the death and burial of John Quincy Adams / Abby Arthur Johnson & Ronald M. Johnson -- Creating a national heritage, denying a national crisis: the Atlantic cable celebrations and Atlantic cable poetry / Mark Niemeyer -- Advertising America, constructing the nation: rituals of the homefront during the Great War / Fernando Fasce -- The self-representation of power: the 'light golden jubilee' in honor of Thomas A. Edison at the edge of the Great Depression / Daria Frezza -- Union fighting as performance: the case of Mary Jones / Helene Christol -- Mocking americanization: the processional as mode of satirical critique / Martha Banta -- "Aleph, beth, kaddish": language, ceremony, and Jewish-American identity / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Rituals of race: gender representations in African-American pageantry and the exotic motive / Alessandra Lorini --^
• Jazz funerals and the second line: African-American celebration and public space in New Orleans / Berndt Ostendorf & Michael Smith -- Stripping the emperor: the Africanist presence in American concert dance / Brenda Dixon-Gottschild -- Spectacular anti-spectacle: ecstasy and nationality in Whitman and his heirs / Charles Altieri -- Frost as virile poet: the queer politics of heterosexuality / Edward Ingebretsen -- Technologies of self in the poetry of Sylvia Plath / Rodica Mihaila -- Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic folk: constructing the northern race and the new American / Donna Cassidy -- Women on the verge of a semiotic breakdown: the work of Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, and Barbara Kruger / Zsofia Ban -- Dressing for sacrifice: the spectacle of the child/woman from Little Eva to JonBenet Ramsey / Alide Cagidemetrio -- "Celebrating AIDS": quilts, confessions, and questions of national identity / Sabine Sielke --^
• Edward Abbey's personal parks in Desert solitaire / Werner Bronnimann -- The American desert as a space of contested identities / Catrin Gersdorf.

ISBN

9053836934

LCCN

^^^00432641^

OCLC

• 47240304
• SCSB-10781944

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library