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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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Other Authors: Giorcelli, Cristina (Editor), Rabinowitz, Paula (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Includes some articles translated from Italian and taken from Abito e identità.
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Series:Habits of being ; 4.
Subjects:
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.