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Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in America since 1772 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in America since 1772 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Renewing the American Narrative
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The book explores the liminal aesthetics of U.S. cultural and
literary practice. Interrogating the notion of a presumptive unity
of the American experience, Moveable Designs argues that inner
conflict, divisiveness, and contradiction are integral to the
nation's cultural designs, themes, and motifs. The study suggests
that U.S. literary and cultural practice is permeated by 'moveable
designs'-flexible, yet constant features of hegemonial practice
that constitute an integral element of American national
self-fashioning. The naturally pervasive liminality of U.S.
cultural production is the key to understanding the resilience of
American culture. Moveable Designs looks at artistic expressions
across various media types (literature, paintings, film,
television), seeking to illuminate critical phases of U.S. American
literature and culture-from the revolutionary years to the
movements of romanticism, realism, and modernism, up to the
postmodern era. It combines a wide array of approaches, from
cultural history and social anthropology to phenomenology.
Connecting an analysis of literary and cultural texts with
approaches from design theory, the book proposes a new way of
understanding American culture as design. It is one of the unique
characteristics of American culture that it creates-or, rather,
designs-potency out of its inner conflicts and apparent disunities.
That which we describe as an identifiable 'American identity' is
actually the product of highly vulnerable, alternating processes of
dissolution and self-affirmation.
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