Extravagances /
This four-volume English-language series extracts more than forty of the best essays included in the ongoing editions Abito e Identità: Ricerche di storia letteraria e culturale, edited by Cristina Giorcelli and published since 1995 by Edizioni Associate (volumes 1/3) and Ila Palma Press (volumes 4/...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Includes some articles translated from Italian and taken from Abito e identità. |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Habits of being ;
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Table of Contents:
- Clothing, dress, fashion: an arcade
- Introduction: Worn out of bounds / Paula Rabinowitz
- When women speak...their clothes talk / Mariapia Bobbioni
- An accessory is a gesture: in conversation with Cristina Giorcelli / Guillermo Mariotto
- Wearing a crown / Paola Colaiacomo
- Earnings in American literature: a showcase / Cristina Giorcelli
- Buttons, buttons, and more buttons! / Margherita Di Fazio
- Curse of the corsage: femmes fatales and the can-do girl / Charlotte Nekola
- Schiaparelli's convulsive gloves / Victoria R. Pass
- Frock and bracelet in omeros / Maria Anita Stefanelli
- Kahlo and O'Keeffe: portrait of the artist as fashion icon / Paula Rabinowitz
- Strays / Tarrah Krajnak
- The erotic play of the veil: tapadas in Lima / Camilla Cattarulla
- Clad in the bloody livery: fashion and color during Argentina's civil war / Amana Salvioni
- To fashion the wonderful garment: W.E.B. Du Bois's the quest of the silver fleece and Nella Larsen's quicksand / Giulia Fabi
- Subtle and spectacular: dressing in kalabari style / Joanne B. Eicher
- Shmata mash-up: A jewette for two voices / Maria Damon and Adeena Karasick
- Coda. Fashion's strategies of communication and sustainability / Cristina Giorcelli.