TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reckson,Lindsay V.
TI  - Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature 
T2  - Performance and American Cultures
SN  - 9781479803323
U1  - 810.9/12 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Performance in literature
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - Realism in literature
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anna Julia Cooper
KW  - Frances E. W. Harper
KW  - Ghost Dance
KW  - Hamlin Garland
KW  - James Mooney
KW  - James Weldon Johnson
KW  - Jim Crow
KW  - Nella Larsen
KW  - Pentecostalism
KW  - Reconstruction
KW  - W. E. B. Du Bois
KW  - William Dean Howells
KW  - William Van der Weyde
KW  - affect
KW  - body
KW  - capital punishment
KW  - conversion
KW  - electricity
KW  - ethnography
KW  - gesture
KW  - haunting
KW  - intersectionality
KW  - lynching
KW  - messiah craze
KW  - performance
KW  - photography
KW  - queerness
KW  - realism
KW  - recording
KW  - reenactment
KW  - secularism
KW  - secularization
KW  - settler colonialism
KW  - sexuality
KW  - storefront church
KW  - temporality
KW  - whiteness
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances to storefront church revivals to explore realism's relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a wide-ranging repertoire of media practices-including literature, photography, audio recording, and early film-Lindsay V. Reckson argues that the real was repetitively enacted and reenacted through bodily practice. Realist Ecstasy demonstrates how the realist imagining of possessed bodies helped construct and naturalize racial difference, while excavating the complex, shifting, and dynamic possibilities embedded in ecstatic performance: its production of new and immanent forms of being beside. Across her readings of Stephen Crane, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen, among others, Reckson triangulates secularism, realism, and racial formation in the post-Reconstruction moment. Realist Ecstasy shows how post-Reconstruction realist texts mobilized gestures-especially the gestures associated with religious ecstasy-to racialize secularism itself. Reckson offers us a distinctly new vision of American realism as a performative practice, a sustained account of how performance lives in and through literary archives, and a rich sense of how closely secularization and racialization were linked in Jim Crow America
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ER  -