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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807878603321

Titolo

Re:skin / / edited by Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-09760-1

9786612097607

0-262-27277-6

1-4294-6555-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

FlanaganMary <1969->

BoothAustin

Disciplina

813/.609353

Soggetti

Skin

American fiction - 21st century

Canadian fiction - 21st century

Skin - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The man who plugged in (fiction) / L. Timmel Duchamp -- Safety of skin (nonfiction) / Melinda Rackham -- Making room for the body: from fragmentation to mediation (nonfiction) / Bernadette Wegenstein -- On morphological imagination (nonfiction) / Vivian Sobchack -- Fur Manifesto (fiction/nonfiction) / Model T. and Sara D(iamond) -- Ganger (Ball Lightning) (fiction) / Nalo Hopkinson -- Perfect twins (nonfiction) / Rebecca Cannon -- Lynx and strand (fiction) / Jewelle Gomez -- Readers of the lost art (fiction) / Elisabeth Vonarburg -- The Black.Net.Art actions: Blackness for sale (2001), The interaction of coloreds (2002), and The pink of stealth (2003) (fiction/nonfiction) / Keith + Mendi Obadike -- Eye contact: fine moving hands and the flesh and blood of image fabrication in the operating theaters of interventional radiology (nonfiction) / Christina Lammer -- Seminal space: getting under the digital skin (nonfiction) / Alicia Imperiale -- Skin (fiction/nonfiction) / Shelley Jackson -- Reskinning the everyday (nonfiction) / Mary Flanagan -- Performing blackness: virtual sports and becoming the other in an era of white supremacy (nonfiction) /



David J. Leonard -- Morphologies: race as a visual technology (nonfiction) / Jennifer Gonzalez.

Sommario/riassunto

"In re:skin, scholars, essayists, and short stort writers offer their perspectives on skin--as boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality."--Dust jacket front flap.