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The wedding complex : forms of belonging in modern American culture / Elizabeth Freeman.

Author/creator Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Descriptionxix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Series Q
Series Q. ^A322846
Contents Love among the ruins -- The we of me: the member of the wedding's novel alliances -- That troth which failed to plight: race, the wedding, and kin aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom! -- A diabolical circle for the divell to daunce in: foundational weddings and the problem of civil marriage -- Honeymoon with a stranger: private couplehood and the making of the national subject -- The immediate country, or, heterosexuality in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Coda.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.
LCCN 2002003196
ISBN0822329530 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0822329891 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.W39 F74 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold