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Unnatural Formations (Paperback)
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Unnatural Formations (Paperback)
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Loot Price R375
Discovery Miles 3 750
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"Nothing typifies the American sense of identity more," Mark
Seltzer writes at the beginning of his 1992 book Bodies and
Machines, "than the love of nature (nature's nation) except perhaps
the love of technology (made in America)." The term "nature," along
with a few others-"culture," "technology," "nation"-has been of
central importance in American literary and cultural studies
throughout the past century. The essays in his special issue of
American Literature explore in rich detail some of the roles of the
"unnatural" in the making of American literature and culture.
Several of the essays focus on literary works-both celebrated and
forgotten ones-from the turn of the century, when social Darwinism,
eugenics, and other forms of the new "scientific" social thinking
were being used to exclude large segments of the population from
the realm of the "natural" or the "healthy." Beginning with the
treatment of the figure of the spinster in the fiction of Harriet
Beecher Stowe, these essays move in provocative and refreshing ways
through their reconsiderations of the "unnatural formations" to be
found in the work of writers ranging from pioneering African
American author Pauline Hopkins to Henry James, Florence Converse,
Willa Cather, and Djuna Barnes. Readers interested in sampling the
best current scholarship on the effects on American cultural and
social history of different ways of understanding gender,
sexuality, and race will find this special issue of American
Literature a valuable and stimulating resource.
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