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Author_Maureen F. Curtin
Black Physicality
Blackface Minstrelsy
body modification
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cybernetic embodiment
Diamond Composition
Electric Shock Therapy
empire
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Factory Hospital
feminist criticism
gravity's
Gravity's Rainbow
identity politics
IG Farben
integration
invisible
Invisible Man
literary theory
Male Masochism
man
Mobius Strip
rainbow
Reflective Glass Skin
secret
Secret Integration
senseless
shadow
Shock Therapy
Skin Ego
skin metaphors in modern literature
Skin's Capacity
Sponges
Superb
Violating
visual culture studies
White Visitation
Woolf's Writing
X-ray Film
X-ray Photography
X-ray Technology
Xray Film
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415866996
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
