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The wedding complex : forms of belonging in modern American culture / Elizabeth Freeman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Series Q
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Weddings in literature.
- Same-sex marriage--United States.
- Same-sex marriage.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Sexual orientation in literature.
- Weddings in motion pictures.
- Weddings in popular culture.
- Weddings--United States.
- Weddings.
- Culture in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A queer literary and cultural studies examination of the wedding ceremony (rather than the resulting marriages) which finds it to be a space of more open possibilities than might normally be supposed.
- Contents:
- Love among the ruins
- The we of me : The member of the wedding's novel alliances
- "That troth which failed to plight" : race, the wedding, and kin-aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom!
- "A diabolical circle for the divell to daunce in" : foundational weddings and the problem of civil marriage
- Honeymoon with a stranger : private couplehood and the making of the national subject
- The immediate country, or, heterosexuality in the age of mechanical reproduction
- Coda.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064189
- 9781283064187
- 1283064189
- 9780822384007
- 0822384000
- OCLC:
- 190713356
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