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The Power of Smell in American Literature: Odor, Affect, and Social Inequality

The Power of Smell in American Literature: Odor, Affect, and Social Inequality

Babilon, Daniela
Von Bardeleben, Renate

Hardcover

Series: Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik, Book 69

English as a Second LanguageLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631681089
ISBN13: 9783631681084
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jan 25 2017
Pages: 335
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establishing and subverting power structures. Although smell carries an enormous affective potential, it has been largely - but unjustly - overlooked in literary and cultural studies. Through her innovative close readings of works by authors such as Melville, Whitman, Equiano, Wilkins Freeman, Faulkner, Morrison, or Ellison, the author shows how smell stereotypes are used to discriminate against people and how odor references serve to undermine oppressive power structures. For this purpose, the author traces the cultural history of odor and combines insights from fields such as critical race, gender, intersectionality, trauma, and affect theories.

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