Thinking the limits of the body / / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 203 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Soggetto topico: Human body - Social aspects; Human body (Philosophy)
• Altri autori: CohenJeffrey Jerome WeissGail <1959->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Thinking the Limits of the Body -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Bodies at the Limit by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss -- PART I: HORIZONS -- 1. Histories of the Present and Future: Feminism, Power, Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz -- 2. The Body as a Narrative Horizon by Gail Weiss -- PART II: DERMAL BOUNDARIES -- 3. Cutups in Beauty School by Linda S. Kauffman -- 4. Deep Skin by William A. Cohen -- PART III: RACIAL EDGES -- 5. Ontological Crisis and Double Narration in African American Fiction: Reconstructing Our Nig by Laura Doyle -- 6. Parallaxes: Cannibalism and Self-Embodiment Or, The Calvinist Reading of Tupi A-Theology by Sara Castro-Klar´en -- PART IV: DIS-ABLING ALLIANCES -- 7. Making Freaks: Visual Rhetorics and the Spectacle of Julia Pastrana by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- 8. Critical Investments: AIDS, Christopher Reeve, and Queer/Disability Studies by Robert McRuer -- PART V: LIMINALITIES -- 9. The Inhuman Circuit by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- 10. Mourning the Autonomous Body by Debra B. Bergoffen -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body.
• Titolo autorizzato: Thinking the limits of the body
• ISBN: 0-7914-8747-4; 1-4175-2053-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824052903321
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