| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in fashion and the body |
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Palgrave studies in fashion and the body
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction: Totem and Tattoo -- Part I: TATTOOING (AS) ART -- Chapter 2: A Medium, Not a Phenomenon: An Argument for An Art Historical Approach to Western Tattooing -- Chapter 3: Contemporary Western Tattooing as an Inherently Collaborative Practice: The Contingent Authorial Input and Operational Mode of the Tattooist -- Chapter 4: Branch out, Perform, Interlink: Reading Tattoos as Soma-Hypertexts in Shelley Jackson's SKIN and Skin Motion's Soundwave Tattoos -- Part II: TRANSCULTURAL TATTOOING -- Chapter 5: Huh tu pu/ To Mark with Tattoo: Chen Naga Tiger-Spirit Tattoos and Indigenous Ontologies in Northeast India -- Chapter 6: The last generation of tattooed Bedouin women in southern Jordan: When tradition and climate change collided in Wadi Rum -- Chapter 7: Tattoos, Tattoos, Vikings, Vikings, and Vikings -- Part III: TATTOOING THE POLITICAL BODY -- Chapter 8: Herman Melvilles (Un)Readables: Tattoos -- Chapter 9: The Life of the Tattoo: Subcutaneous Surveillances and the Economy of the Stigmatization -- Chapter 10: Democratic Hieroglyphs: On the Peoples Indecipherable Flesh in Moby-Dick -- Part IV: TATTOOING LITERATURES -- Chapter 11: Jeff VanderMeers Southern Reach Trilogy: Writing Out the Body Between Grammatology and Exscription -- Chapter 12: Tattooing Terminable Interminable: Psychoanalysis, Corporeal Marking and Literature -- Chapter 13: Effluvial Exhalations: Genets ontological quandary -- Chapter 14: Limited Ink: Of Repressence, Inkorporation, and Marineation -- Chapter 15: Derrida & Deleuze as Tattooed Savages |
| Summary |
The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with perspectives in art history, continental philosophy, media studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory, literary studies, biopolitics, and cultural anthropology, the volume reflects the diversity of meanings attributed to tattoos across cultures. Essays explore tattoos and tattooing in Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, Agamben, and Jean-Luc Nancy, while interpreting tattoos in literary works by Melville, Beckett, Kafka, Genet, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others. James Martell is Associate Professor of French at Lyon College, USA. Erik Larsen is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester, USA |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Tattooing -- Philosophy
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Tattooing in art.
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Tattooing in literature.
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Tattooing in art
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Tattooing in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martell, James, editor.
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Larsen, Alexander Erik, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030865665 |
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3030865665 |
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