Moveable Designs, Liminal Aesthetics, and Cultural Production in America since 1772

Chapter 1 Introduction: Welcome to the Twilight Zone

Chapter 2 Moveable Designs moveable designs : Liminal Aesthetics liminal aesthetics and Cultural Production cultural production

Chapter 3 Trans America: Cultural Hybridity hybridity cultural hybridity and Transgendered Desire transgendered desire from the Colonial Era to Modernity

Chapter 5 Open Doors, Closed Spaces openness/closure : The Transatlantic Imaginary transatlantic imaginary (Giles) in American Urban Writing urban writing transatlantic dimension of from the Post-Revolutionary Era to Modernism

Chapter 6 White Bo(d)y in Wonderland: Cultural Alterity and Sexual Desire in Tod Browning’s Where East Is East Where East Is East (Browning) (1929)

Chapter 7 Cinematic Literature cinematic literature : Intermedial Aesthetics intermedial aesthetics , Juvenile Rebellion Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger) motif of juvenile rebellion in , and Carnal Subjectivity carnal subjectivity in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger) intermedial aesthetics of

Chapter 8 Animal Laughter: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization dehierarchization in Mister Ed Mister Ed (CBS)

Chapter 9 Astronautic Subjectivity: Postmodern Culture and the Embodiment of Space in American Science Fiction

Chapter 10 Coda: Thinking ‘America’ in the Age of the Liminal