A New American “Physical Morality”: Martha Graham and the Revaluation of the Body in Letter to the World
This paper will explore Graham’s revaluation of morality, as well as her Whitman-inspired conception of “physical morality” promoting the free expression of the body, and her conception of the universal beauty of the body performing true movement, free from the stifling falseness of Puritan conventi...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/15341 |