Hair, Death, and Memory: The Making of an American Relic
This article traces the transformation of hairworks in America during the mid-nineteenth-century. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin transformed the meaning of hair and hairworks in the American cultural imaginary by endowing Little Evangeline St. Clare’s hair with sacred, moralizing p...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2015-08-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/3/334 |