Realist Ecstasy : : Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature / / Lindsay V. Reckson.
Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghos...
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Reckson, Lindsay V., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Realist Ecstasy : Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature / Lindsay V. Reckson. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2021] ©2020 1 online resource : 22 black and white illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Performance and American Cultures ; 2 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Being Beside -- 1. Reconstructing Secularisms -- 2. Archival Enthusiasm -- 3. The Ghost Dance and Realism’s Techno- Spiritual Frontier -- 4. Touching a Button -- 5. Born, Again -- Coda: Behind, Before, Beside -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances to storefront church revivals to explore realism’s relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a wide-ranging repertoire of media practices-including literature, photography, audio recording, and early film-Lindsay V. Reckson argues that the real was repetitively enacted and reenacted through bodily practice. Realist Ecstasy demonstrates how the realist imagining of possessed bodies helped construct and naturalize racial difference, while excavating the complex, shifting, and dynamic possibilities embedded in ecstatic performance: its production of new and immanent forms of being beside. Across her readings of Stephen Crane, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen, among others, Reckson triangulates secularism, realism, and racial formation in the post-Reconstruction moment. Realist Ecstasy shows how post-Reconstruction realist texts mobilized gestures-especially the gestures associated with religious ecstasy-to racialize secularism itself. Reckson offers us a distinctly new vision of American realism as a performative practice, a sustained account of how performance lives in and through literary archives, and a rich sense of how closely secularization and racialization were linked in Jim Crow America. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) American literature History and criticism. Performance in literature. Race in literature. Realism in literature. Religion in literature. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. bisacsh Anna Julia Cooper. Frances E. W. Harper. Ghost Dance. Hamlin Garland. James Mooney. James Weldon Johnson. Jim Crow. Nella Larsen. Pentecostalism. Reconstruction. W. E. B. Du Bois. William Dean Howells. William Van der Weyde. affect. body. capital punishment. conversion. electricity. ethnography. gesture. haunting. intersectionality. lynching. messiah craze. performance. photography. queerness. realism. recording. reenactment. secularism. secularization. settler colonialism. sexuality. storefront church. temporality. whiteness. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110722703 print 9781479803323 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479803323.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479842452 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479842452/original |
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