« Hair-oes » et « hair-oines » : les choix capillaires osés de John Neal, ou comment circonscrire l’Américain, entre poil dur et poil souple
This paper explores the quasi-obsessional use John Neal (1793-1876) makes of hair: the vibrating nealian hair is a neutral ground, a ground where the alchemy shaping Neal’s androgynous American is at work. This study offers a new perspective on the “Declaration of Independence, in the great Republic...
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| description | This paper explores the quasi-obsessional use John Neal (1793-1876) makes of hair: the vibrating nealian hair is a neutral ground, a ground where the alchemy shaping Neal’s androgynous American is at work. This study offers a new perspective on the “Declaration of Independence, in the great Republic of Letters” proclaimed in the preface of Rachel Dyer (1828): following Neal’s wavy-haired protagonists, we come closer to the heart of his “Frontier-writing,” American, though underrated. |
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| title | « Hair-oes » et « hair-oines » : les choix capillaires osés de John Neal, ou comment circonscrire l’Américain, entre poil dur et poil souple |
| title_full | « Hair-oes » et « hair-oines » : les choix capillaires osés de John Neal, ou comment circonscrire l’Américain, entre poil dur et poil souple |
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| title_short | « Hair-oes » et « hair-oines » : les choix capillaires osés de John Neal, ou comment circonscrire l’Américain, entre poil dur et poil souple |
| title_sort | hair oes et hair oines les choix capillaires oses de john neal ou comment circonscrire l americain entre poil dur et poil souple |
| topic | independence United States revolution language nature sexuality |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/8202 |
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