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Author_Uli Linke
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Black Bodies
Black Nudity
body
body politic theory
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critical race theory
cultural violence research
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German Body
German Body Politic
German citizenship studies
Hold
Liquid Images
naked
Nation Building
nude
Nude Sunbathing
nudity
Postwar
Postwar German State
postwar memory politics
Postwar West
Public Nudity
racial
Racial Aesthetic
Racial Aesthetices
racial representation in German history
skin
Smoothed
Topless
unclothed
Unclothed Body
visual culture analysis
West German
West Germany
white
White Bodies
White Naked Bodies
White Nudity
White Public Space
White Skin
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415921220
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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German Bodies explores the cultural representations of German identity and citizenship before and after World War II, and offers a critical analysis of race, violence, and modernity in German history and contemporary German society. Uli Linke examines how Germans invested the body with meanings that had significance for the larger body politic and investigates how this fits within the larger consumer culture, social memory and the postwar democratization of the country. The book is divided into three sections discussing different aspects of the German cult of the body: Aryan aesthetics, as in the postwar obsession with white nudity; blood aesthetics, as in the demonization of immigrants as a blood-contagion; and cultural violence, as in the images of genocide and dismemberment evoked in political protests during German reunification.
Uli Linke is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and Professor at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of Cultural Anthropology at Tuebingen University. She is the author of Blood andNation: The European Aesthetics of Race (1999).
