Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in America since 1772

Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in America since 1772

Brandt, Stefan L.

Springer International Publishing AG

12/2022

297

Dura

Inglês

9783031136108

15 a 20 dias

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1 Introduction: Welcome to the Twilight Zone.- Moveable Fictions-Cultural (Dis)Unity and Boundary Transgression.- The Designs of Literary and Cultural Practice.- Design Thinking and the Cultural Field of 'America'.- The Longue Dureeof Moveable Designs in American Cultural History.- Part I Theoretical Framework.- 2 Moveable Designs: Liminal Aesthetics and Cultural Production.-Designing Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.- America as Fiction-Literature as Performance.- Liminal Aesthetics and Liquid Modernity.-Culture as Design-The (Not So) Secret Lives of Aesthetic Objects.- Part II Contexts.- 3 TransAmerica: Cultural Hybridity and Transgendered Desire from the Colonial Era to Modernity.- Introduction: Heterogeneity and Transgendered Desire.-The Making of 'America': From the Colonial Era to the Nation State.- Revolutionary Compacts: Transgendered Imagery and the Invention of 'Columbia'.- Conclusion: From Transnational America toTransnation.- 4 The 'American in Chains': (Cons)Piracy and the Specter of North Africa in U.S. Barbary Captivity Narratives.- Introduction: NorthAfrica in the Early U.S. Cultural Imagination.- The Specter of Algiers in Barbary Captivity Narratives.- Algiers as a Counter-Image to the Early U.S. Republic in The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania.- Spaces of Imperialism in Slaves in Algiers and The Algerine Captive.- Conclusion: U.S. Exceptionalism and the Birth of the Orient as America's Other.- 5 Open Doors, Closed Spaces: The Transatlantic Imaginary in American Urban Writing from the Post-Revolutionary Era to Modernism.-Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of Cross-Atlantic Mapmaking.- From Open City to Shrinking City.- The Labyrinthine Aesthetics of the Walking City.-Open Doors and Walled Streets: Atlantic Cities as Imagined Landscapes.- Conclusion: Shades of the Open City in U.S. Transatlantic Writing.- Part III Case Studies.- 6 White Bo(d)y in Wonderland: Cultural Alterity and Sexual Desire in Tod Browning's Where East Is East (1929).-Introduction: Essentialist Topographies-Where East Is East, and West Is West.- The Codes of Colonial Discourse.- Economies of Stereotyping.-Metonymic Displacement and Ethnic Masquerade.- Metaphysical Condensation and Animal Imagery.- Fetishization of the Orient.-Allegories of (De-)Historicization.- Comic Ethnicity and Explosive Body Language.- Conclusion: The Uses and Abuses of Orientalist Imagery.-7 Cinematic Literature: Intermedial Aesthetics, Juvenile Rebellion, and Carnal Subjectivity in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.-Introduction: J.D. Salinger-An Undercover Story.- The Catcher in the Rye as a Cinematic Text.- Juvenile Rebellion and the Rhetoric of Disgust.-Conclusion: Carnal Identification and Cinematic Fiction.- 8 Animal Laughter: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed.-Introduction: The Sitcom Genre and Carnivalesque Humor.- Rendering the 'Impossible' Possible: Postcolonial Theory and the Animal Subaltern.-Bestial Ambivalence and the Aesthetics of Shapeshifting.- Pushing the Boundaries of Human and Non-human: Mister Ed as a Liminal Animal Denizen.- Conclusion: Empowering the Subjugated Other.-Part IV State of Affairs and Outlook.- 9 Astronautic Subjectivity: Postmodern Culture and the Embodiment of Space in American Science Fiction.- Introduction: Fashioning the Astronautic Subject.- Postmodern Subjectivity and the Body Without Organs.- The Gender of Astronauts.- Man as Mother, Or, Gender Trouble in Space.- The Astronautic Subject as Cultural Figuration.- Transsexual Galaxies: The Mechanics of Engenderneering.-Conclusion: Burning Bridges, Engendering New Selves.- 10 Coda: Thinking 'America' in the Age of the Liminal.- Works Cited and Consulted.
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American Cultural History;American Literary History;American Visual Art;Astronautic Subjectivity;Barbary Captivity Narratives;Cultural Production;Design Thinking;Early American Literature;Gender;Liminality;Liquid Modernity;Moveable Designs;Orientalism;Postmodernism;Science Fiction;Silent Cinema;Sitcoms;Transatlantic Urbanity;Whiteness;Young Adult Fiction