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Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture

Dillon Karen
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781476666969
Publisert
2018-08-03
Utgiver
McFarland & Co Inc
Vekt
254 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
204

Forfatter
Dillon Karen

Biografisk notat

Karen Dillon teaches literature and writing at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois, where she specializes in American and African-American literature. She lives in Carlinville.

Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture

Dillon Karen
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
Dillon Karen
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
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The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently offer the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a supposed alikeness--standing side by side, speaking and acting in unison.

Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon, this first comprehensive study of twins in American literature and popular culture examines the historical narrative--within the discourses of experimentation, aberrance and eugenics--and how it has shaped their representations in the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon, this first comprehensive study of twins in American literature and popular culture examines their historical narrative - embedded within discourses of aberrance, experimentation and eugenics - and how it has shaped their public and personal representations in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A History of Twins in the United States
One—“A Chill of Similitude”: Disturbing Likeness in Photographic and Literary Representations of Twins
Two—The Sexual Fantasy of Twins: Twincest and Triangulated Desire
Three—Keeping It in the Family: Twins and Race in William Melvin Kelley’s dem and Toni Morrison’s Paradise
Four—Twins as Goodwill Cultural Ambassadors: The Educational Goals of Lucy Fitch Perkins’s
Foreign Twins Series
Five—The Twin Companion: Twins Branding in Juvenile Media
Six—Wombmates for Life: Inside the Subculture of Twinship
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
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The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently offer the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a supposed alikeness--standing side by side, speaking and acting in unison.

Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon, this first comprehensive study of twins in American literature and popular culture examines the historical narrative--within the discourses of experimentation, aberrance and eugenics--and how it has shaped their representations in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Les mer
Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon, this first comprehensive study of twins in American literature and popular culture examines their historical narrative - embedded within discourses of aberrance, experimentation and eugenics - and how it has shaped their public and personal representations in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A History of Twins in the United States
One—“A Chill of Similitude”: Disturbing Likeness in Photographic and Literary Representations of Twins
Two—The Sexual Fantasy of Twins: Twincest and Triangulated Desire
Three—Keeping It in the Family: Twins and Race in William Melvin Kelley’s dem and Toni Morrison’s Paradise
Four—Twins as Goodwill Cultural Ambassadors: The Educational Goals of Lucy Fitch Perkins’s
Foreign Twins Series
Five—The Twin Companion: Twins Branding in Juvenile Media
Six—Wombmates for Life: Inside the Subculture of Twinship
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781476666969
Publisert
2018-08-03
Utgiver
McFarland & Co Inc
Vekt
254 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
204

Forfatter
Dillon Karen

Biografisk notat

Karen Dillon teaches literature and writing at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois, where she specializes in American and African-American literature. She lives in Carlinville.

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