By Lauren Berlant
Pairing literary feedback and historic research, Berlant explores the territory of this intimate public sphere via shut readings of U.S. women’s literary works and their degree and movie variations. Her interpretation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its literary descendants reaches from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, concerning Shirley Temple, James Baldwin, and The Bridges of Madison County alongside the best way. Berlant illuminates assorted variations of the women’s intimate public via her readings of Edna Ferber’s Show Boat; Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life; Olive Higgins Prouty’s feminist melodrama Now, Voyager; Dorothy Parker’s poetry, prose, and Academy Award–winning screenplay for A famous person Is Born; the Fay Weldon novel and Roseanne Barr movie The lifestyles and Loves of a She-Devil; and the queer, avant-garde movie Showboat 1988–The Remake. The girl grievance is a tremendous contribution from a number one Americanist.
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