Self-fashioning in Margaret Atwood's fiction : dress, culture, and identity /
Cynthia G. Kuhn.
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books
| Utgitt | New York : : Peter Lang, , c2005.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (ix, 144 p. ) : ill. ;
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - "Clothed in words" : Margaret Atwood and dress -- Border crossing : dress as performative boundary and margin -- Toxic chic : dress and dreams in The robber bride -- Amazing space : veils and vogues in Alias Grace -- Style and textile : a conclusion.. - "This book examines the associations between dressing and storytelling in Margaret Atwood's fiction. As cultural representations operating within a network of codes, clothed bodies are often discussed by theorists as constructed performances or as fabricated texts, inextricably bound up with ideology and power. The clothed body often becomes a battleground in Atwood's fiction as female protagonists respond to divisive cultural scripts through self-fashioning. Furthermore, Atwood seems to collapse the opposition between the material and the spiritual through clothing, to consider dress a fitting metaphor for the space between the natural and the supernatural."--Jacket.
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| ISBN | 0820467642
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