«Shopping for simplicity»: moda e americanizzazione nell’opera di Anzia Yezierska
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abito, identità etnica e di genere, modernità, americanizzazione, Anzia YezierskaAbstract
Anzia Yezierska nella sua narrativa esplora il cambio d’abito dell’immigrato sia letteralmente, come abbandono dei vecchi panni per l’adozione della moda statunitense, sia come metafora dei conflitti e contaminazioni innescati dal contatto interculturale.
Shopping for Simplicity: Fashion and Americanization in the Works of Anzia Yezierska
In Anzia Yezierska’s writings the immigrant’s change of clothes is explored both literally, as the rejection of ethnic clothes for US-American fashion, and as a metaphor of cross-cultural conflicts and contaminationsa.
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