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* Chock full of rich features such as Summary & Infographic
which introduce the method to help readers visualize how the
approach works in the classroom and Strategies for Lesson Planning
which outline various means of implementing the pedagogical method
in the classroom and provide dynamic concrete examples from a range
of different disciplines. * Each chapter includes inclusive Best
Practices most relevant for a particular pedagogical method with
Benefits and Limitations of each. * Faculty Discussion Questions
designed for a pedagogy course, workshop, or orientation guide
faculty to understanding the method and how to be inclusive. * This
book addresses what current instructors--both new and more
experienced--feel is lacking in training and the existing
literature.
* Chock full of rich features such as Summary & Infographic
which introduce the method to help readers visualize how the
approach works in the classroom and Strategies for Lesson Planning
which outline various means of implementing the pedagogical method
in the classroom and provide dynamic concrete examples from a range
of different disciplines. * Each chapter includes inclusive Best
Practices most relevant for a particular pedagogical method with
Benefits and Limitations of each. * Faculty Discussion Questions
designed for a pedagogy course, workshop, or orientation guide
faculty to understanding the method and how to be inclusive. * This
book addresses what current instructors--both new and more
experienced--feel is lacking in training and the existing
literature.
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.
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.
During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of
Americanization-shedding ethnic origins and signs of ""otherness""
to embrace a constructed American identity-was accompanied by a
rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately
characterize the American Dream. The theme of self-transformation
has remained a central cultural narrative in American literary,
political, and sociological texts ranging from Jamestown narratives
to immigrant memoirs, from slave narratives to Gone with the Wind,
and from the rags-to-riches stories of Horatio Alger to the
writings of Barack Obama. Such rhetoric feeds American myths of
progress, upward mobility, and personal reinvention. In Fashion and
Fiction, Lauren S. Cardon draws a correlation between the American
fashion industry and early twentieth-century literature. As
American fashion diverged from a class-conscious industry governed
by Parisian designers to become more commercial and democratic, she
argues, fashion designers and journalists began appropriating the
same themes of self-transformation to market new fashion trends.
Cardon illustrates how canonical twentieth-century American
writers, including Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Nella Larsen, symbolically used
clothing to develop their characters and their narrative of upward
mobility. As the industry evolved, Cardon shows, the characters in
these texts increasingly enjoyed opportunities for individual
expression and identity construction, allowing for temporary
performances that offered not escapism but a testing of alternate
identities in a quest for self-discovery.
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