Dressing Psychic Wounds: Clothing as Metaphor in Paule Marshall's <em>Praisesong for the Widow</em> and Leslie Marmon Silko's <em>Ceremony</em>
I investigate the function of dress as it relates to cultural retention in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, drawing upon the work of fashion theorists Joanne Entwistle, Alison Lurie and Anne Hollander. My examination of the two novels is informe...
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Scholar Commons
2009
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| Online Access: | https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/42 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=etd |