Out of Touch
Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 6 December 2002
- ISBN 9780415940191
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages190 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 385 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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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.
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Introduction; Chapter 1 Skin's Eclipses in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway; Chapter 2 Materializing Invisibility as X-Ray Technology; Chapter 3 Skin Harvests; Chapter 4 Scratching the Sensory Surface in Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless; Conclusion;
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