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The Power of Smell in American Literature - Odor, Affect, and Social Inequality (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Power of Smell in American Literature - Odor, Affect, and Social Inequality (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik, 69
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Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this
book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its
impact on establishing and subverting power structures. Although
smell carries an enormous affective potential, it has been largely
- but unjustly - overlooked in literary and cultural studies.
Through her innovative close readings of works by authors such as
Melville, Whitman, Equiano, Wilkins Freeman, Faulkner, Morrison, or
Ellison, the author shows how smell stereotypes are used to
discriminate against people and how odor references serve to
undermine oppressive power structures. For this purpose, the author
traces the cultural history of odor and combines insights from
fields such as critical race, gender, intersectionality, trauma,
and affect theories.
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