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American Girl: The Iconographies of Helen Wills
American Girl: Die Ikonografien der Helen Wills
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Abstract The 'American Girl' this paper considers is Helen Wills, the top-ranked women’s tennis player from 1927 to 1934. Wills was the subject of numerous narrative and visual representations as well as many self-representations in both words and images. Reading Wills in the context of Henry James's Daisy M... mehr
The 'American Girl' this paper considers is Helen Wills, the top-ranked women’s tennis player from 1927 to 1934. Wills was the subject of numerous narrative and visual representations as well as many self-representations in both words and images. Reading Wills in the context of Henry James's Daisy Miller and the popular magazine Gibson Girl, the paper considers the mechanisms by which national symbols are constructed. In particular, it examines the ways in which Wills's style of playing, her clothes, and even her facial expression came to signify a particular version of modern, American femininity (in contrast to that of opponents such as Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Jacobs). It also explores her identity as a white Californian, a neo-classical girl next door, who appealed to Nativists like James Phelan and Gertrude Atherton and whom Diego Rivera placed at the centre of 1931 Allegory of California. In short, Helen Wills proved both a very flexible American symbol and a global celebrity.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Leistungssport; Ikonologie; Repräsentation; Image; Symbolismus; USA; kulturelle Identität; Visualisierung; Magazin
Klassifikation
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Tennis; Helen Wills; national personification; visual representations
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 109-128
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 43 (2018) 2
Heftthema
Visualities - Sports, Bodies, and Visual Sources
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.2.109-128
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)