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Realist Ecstasy : Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature
Title
Realist Ecstasy : Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature / Lindsay V. Reckson.
ISBN
9781479842452
9781479803323
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2020]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2020]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late 19th- and early 20th-century American realism, 'Realist Ecstasy' travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances to storefront church revivals to explore realism's relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a wide-ranging repertoire of media practices - including literature, photography, audio recording, and early film - Lindsay V. Reckson argues that the real was repetitively enacted and reenacted through bodily practice.
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Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Series
Performance and American Cultures
Contents
Introduction : being beside
Reconstructing secularisms
Archival enthusiasm
The ghost dance and realism's techno-spiritual frontier
Touching a button
Born, again
Coda : behind, before, beside.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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