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Not Just Any Dress - Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity (Paperback)
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Not Just Any Dress - Narratives of Memory, Body, and Identity (Paperback)
Series: Counterpoints, 220
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If dresses could talk, what stories might they tell? This
compelling collection of short stories, essays, and poems features
dress as the structural grounding for autobiographical accounts
from women's lives in Western society. Often personal in nature,
these « dress stories point unfailingly to matters of social and
cultural import. Some of the dresses described inhabit the popular
imagination: the little girl dress, the communion dress, the school
uniform, the prom dress, the wedding dress, the little black dress,
and the burial dress. Beyond the semiotic, tactile, and visual
aspects of the dresses themselves, the narratives delve into what
dresses reveal about fundamental aspects of human experience:
identity, embodiment, relationship, and mortality. Bought or made,
then worn, forgotten, remembered, re-constructed, and
re-interpreted, each dress offers a new glimpse into how we
construct meaning in our daily lives, and how dresses serve to
reinforce or resist social structures and cultural expectations.
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