The past is present: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in American chaos, pre/post 9/11
2017; Routledge; Volume: 9; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/19392397.2017.1401934
ISSN1939-2400
Autores Tópico(s)Media, Gender, and Advertising
ResumoHistory, celebrity and everyday experience are often intimately woven together in ways that scholars have not yet rigorously investigated through the lens of temporality. In this article, I will examine the discursive convergence of unlikely narratives – often through the historical happenstance of their simultaneous occurrence – and argue that such convergences are fundamental to the ways in which celebrity life narratives circulate, evolve and are revised within culture. I will propose the method of historical adjacency for illuminating such convergences and use the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as a case study to examine the insight gained through analysis of such convergences, focusing particularly upon the revival of interest in her in 2001 and the co-opting of her life narrative into the contemporary narrative of female strength and dignity post 9/11.
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