Out of Touch - Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker

"Out of Touch" investigates how skin has become a crucial but disavowed figure in twentieth-century literature, theory, and cultural criticism. These discourses reveal the extent to which skin figures in the cultural effect of changes in visual technologies, a development argued by critics to be at the heart of the contest between surface and depth and, by extension, Western globalization and identity politics. The skin has a complex history as a metaphorical terrain over which ideological wars are fought, identity is asserted through modification as in tattooing, and meaning is inscribed upon the human being. Yet even as interventions on the skin characterize much of this history, fantasy and science fiction literature and film trumpet skin's passing in the cybernetic age, and feminist theory calls for abandoning the skin as a hostile boundary.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Maureen F. Curtin

Zusammenfassung

Out of Touch investigates how skin has become a crucial but disavowed figure in twentieth-century literature, theory, and cultural criticism. These discourses reveal the extent to which skin figures in the cultural effect of changes in visual technologies, a development argued by critics to be at the heart of the contest between surface and depth and, by extension, Western globalization and identity politics. The skin has a complex history as a metaphorical terrain over which ideological wars are fought, identity is asserted through modification as in tattooing, and meaning is inscribed upon the human being. Yet even as interventions on the skin characterize much of this history, fantasy and science fiction literature and film trumpet skin's passing in the cybernetic age, and feminist theory calls for abandoning the skin as a hostile boundary.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Maureen F. Curtin, Curtin Maureen F., Maureen F. Curtin
• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780415940191
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94019-1
• Seiten: 190
• Gewicht: 385 g
• Serien: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography, Literature and Literary studies