Household Words

Name: Household Words
Brand: University of Minnesota Press
SKU: 9780816645534
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Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber

Автор: Stephanie A. Smith

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of Minnesota Press

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Looking in detail at words that "treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that str...

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Автор

Stephanie A. Smith

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2006

страници

264

EAN

9780816645534

ISBN

0816645531

Enbook ID

04729805

Издател

University of Minnesota Press

Теглоt

282

Размери

138 x 215 x 13

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Looking in detail at words that "treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that strange space where joking, ridiculing, demeaning, oppressing, resisting, and regretting converge," "Household Words" is a study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history. Specifically, Stephanie A. Smith examines six words--"bloomer, sucker, bombshell, scab, nigger," and "cyber"--and explores how these words with their contemporary "universal" meaning appeal to a dangerous idea about what it means to be human, an idea that denies our history of conflict. She traces "bombshell" from Marilyn Monroe through women's liberation and the sexual revolution to Monica Lewinsky, "scab" from blemish to strikebreaker, "sucker" from lollipop to the routinely cheated. Exposing the ambiguities in each of the words, Smith reveals that our language is communal and cutting, democratic and discriminatory, social and psychological. Stephanie A. Smith is associate professor of English at the University of Florida and the author of "Conceived by Liberty: Maternal Figures and Nineteenth-Century American Literature" as well as three novels.

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