The Wedding Complex
Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2002
310 pages
978-0-8223-8400-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Elizabeth Freeman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Davis.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Love among the Ruins
2. The We of Me: The Member of the Wedding's Novel Alliances
3. "That Troth Which Failed to Plight": Race, the Wedding, and Kin Aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom!
4. "A Diabolical Circle for the Divell to Daunce In": Foundational Weddings and the Problem of Civil Marriage
5. Honeymoon with a Stranger: Private Couplehood and the Making of the National Subject
6. The Immediate Country, or, Heterosexuality in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Coda
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
1. Love among the Ruins
2. The We of Me: The Member of the Wedding's Novel Alliances
3. "That Troth Which Failed to Plight": Race, the Wedding, and Kin Aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom!
4. "A Diabolical Circle for the Divell to Daunce In": Foundational Weddings and the Problem of Civil Marriage
5. Honeymoon with a Stranger: Private Couplehood and the Making of the National Subject
6. The Immediate Country, or, Heterosexuality in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Coda
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
