The Power of Smell in American Literature - Odor, Affect, and Social Inequality (Hardcover, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Ag
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik, 69
Release date:	2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Daniela Babilon
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	335
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-631-68108-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	3-631-68108-9
Barcode:	9783631681084

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