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Melodrama is often faulted for granting visibility while withholding it at the same time. Manuel Vogelsang argues that American writers and artists turned this double bind into a method for constructing a usable past. Spanning two centuries of literature, film, and photography, from Poe and Hawthorne to Willa Cather, Terrence Malick, Todd Haynes, and John Dugdale, he reads self-reflexive melodrama as a theory of the archive. He shows how the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the erasure of queer lives are enacted formally as well as physically - and how artists have turned these strategies against their oppressors.

Book details

• Full title: The Melodramatic Archive
• Subtitle: Visibility, Erasure, and the Making of the American Past
• Author: Manuel Vogelsang
• Series: Global Sentimentality,
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9783837685770
• ID: 54320154
• Publisher: transcript
• Dimensions: 225 × 148 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. April 2027

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