« Hair-oes » et « hair-oines » : les choix capillaires osés de John Neal, ou comment circonscrire l’Américain, entre poil dur et poil souple

Transatlantica

关键词: John Neal;    hair;    frontier;    United States;    American literature;    nineteenth century;   

DOI  :  10.4000/transatlantica.8202

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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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