Spectacle of Twins in American Literature and Popular Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently offer the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a supposed alikeness--standing side by side, speaking and acting in unison.Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon, this first comprehensive study of twins in American literature and popular culture examines the historical narrative--within the discourses of experimentation, aberrance and eugenics--and how it has shaped their representations in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:204
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476666969

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Konstformer inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Karen Dillon teaches literature and writing at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois, where she specializes in American and African-American literature. She lives in Carlinville.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A History of Twins in the United StatesOne—“A Chill of Similitude”: Disturbing Likeness in Photographic and Literary Representations of TwinsTwo—The Sexual Fantasy of Twins: Twincest and Triangulated DesireThree—Keeping It in the Family: Twins and Race in William Melvin Kelley’s dem and Toni Morrison’s ParadiseFour—Twins as Goodwill Cultural Ambassadors: The Educational Goals of Lucy Fitch Perkins’s Foreign Twins SeriesFive—The Twin Companion: Twins Branding in Juvenile MediaSix—Wombmates for Life: Inside the Subculture of TwinshipConclusionChapter NotesBibliographyIndex