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Fashioning Character - Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature (Hardcover)
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Fashioning Character - Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
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It's often said that we are what we wear. Tracing an American
trajectory in fashion, Lauren Cardon shows how we become what we
wear. Over the twentieth century, the American fashion industry
diverged from its roots in Paris, expanding and attempting to reach
as many consumers as possible. Fashion became a tool for social
mobility. During the late twentieth century, the fashion industry
offered something even more valuable to its consumers: the
opportunity to explore and perform. The works Cardon examines by
Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, Sherman Alexie, and
Aleshia Brevard, among others illustrate how American fashion, with
its array of possibilities, has offered a vehicle for curating
public personas. Characters explore a host of identities as fashion
allows them to deepen their relationships with ethnic or cultural
identity, to reject the social codes associated with economic
privilege, or to forge connections with family and community. These
temporary transformations, or performances, show that identity is a
process constantly negotiated and questioned, never completely
fixed.
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