Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an Icon
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Jackie Under My Skin is a nuanced description of how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed our definitions of personal identity and style. As Wayne Koestenbaum follows her into America's dreamwork, far from pious "family values," he dares to see her as a pleasure principle, a figure of Circean extravagance, and liberates her from the propagandistic uses to which her image if often harnessed.
Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum is a distinguished professor of English, French, and comparative literature at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. His twenty books include Camp Marmalade, Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Humiliation, Andy Warhol, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. For more information, visit waynekoestenbaum.com.
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