A queer literary and cultural studies examination of the wedding ceremony (rather than the resulting marriages) which finds it to be a space of more open possibilities than might normally be supposed
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A queer literary and cultural studies examination of the wedding ceremony (rather than the resulting marriages) which finds it to be a space of more open possibilities than might normally be supposed
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Love among the Ruins; 2 The We of Me: The Member of the Wedding's Novel Alliances; 3 ''That Troth Which Failed to Plight'': Race, the Wedding, and KinAesthetics in Absalom, Absalom! ; 4 ''A Diabolical Circle for the Divell to Daunce In'': Foundational Weddings and the Problem of Civil Marriage; 5 Honeymoon with a Stranger: Private Couplehood and the Makingof the National Subject; 6 The Immediate Country, or, Heterosexuality inthe Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Coda; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
