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OverviewTraditionally, the carnival mode in Europe offers a suspension of time and ordinary social conventions; however, through the presentation and representation of that which is deemed exotic and unconventional, American carnival proposes an alternative landscape. While other authors have generally focused on European manifestations of the carnival, McGowan identifies and analyzes a particularly American form of the carnival, which systematically operates to codify race and space within the United States. Through an analysis of overt carnival forms, such as minstrel shows, World's Fairs, and Coney Island, McGowan demonstrates how America reads society and culture through a dualistic vision contoured by race, class, ethnic, and gender concerns. American exhibitions of Otherness are constructed within, and interpreted through, an economy of spectacular display and punishment, in which the normative position of whiteness is opposed by manipulated representations of Other identities, such as freaks and monsters, blacks, Native Americans, and other minority groups. The volume explores how such carnivalizations of America's racial faces and social spaces extend beyond overt spectacles and constitute a continuous process of encoded readings of social position. The book examines a range of texts and cultural events from the 19th and 20th centuries to identify the operations and mutations of American carnival forms, including literary works by such authors as Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Bellow. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Philip McGowanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc Volume: No. 10 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780313315138ISBN 10: 0313315132 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 30 July 2001 Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface Introducing American Carnival 19th-Century Carnival 20th-Century Carnival Expatriated American Carnival between the Wars Performing Carnivals Revisiting the Fair: American Carnival after 1950--From Algren to Auster Afterword IndexReviewsAuthor InformationPHILIP MCGOWAN is Lecturer in American Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has previously taught at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. He has published on a range of topics, including temperance literature, Middle Generation poetry, Saul Bellow, and Raymond Carver. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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