Lost Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Bodies write by Laura E. Tanner. This book was released on 2018-07-05. Lost Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."—from the Introduction American popular culture conducts a passionate love affair with the healthy, fit, preferably beautiful body, and in recent years theories of embodiment have assumed importance in various scholarly disciplines. But what of the dying or dead body? Why do we avert our gaze, speak of it only as absence? This thoughtful and beautifully written book—illustrated with photographs by Shellburne Thurber and other remarkable images—finds a place for the dying and lost body in the material, intellectual, and imaginary spaces of contemporary American culture. Laura E. Tanner focuses her keen attention on photographs of AIDS patients and abandoned living spaces; newspaper accounts of September 11; literary works by Don DeLillo, Donald Hall, Sharon Olds, Marilynne Robinson, and others; and material objects, including the AIDS Quilt. She analyzes the way in which these representations of the body reflect current cultural assumptions, revealing how Americans read, imagine, and view the dynamics of illness and loss. The disavowal of bodily dimensions of death and grief, she asserts, deepens rather than mitigates the isolation of the dying and the bereaved. Lost Bodies will speak to anyone imperiled by the threat of loss.
Lost Bodies
Lost Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Bodies write by Jenni Davis. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Lost Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Fully illustrated andpacked with information about the life, demise, disappearance, and discovery (sometimes) of each famous and infamous figure. Lost Bodies explores the controversies surrounding their deaths and the theories about what may have happened to them. Step aboard the history-myster tour."--Back cover
Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction
Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction write by Paola Zamperini. This book was released on 2010-06-28. Lost Bodies: Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journey from innocence to sex-work and beyond. This crucial angle allows the author to paint a picture of gender identity, sexuality, and desire that is at once unitary and multi-layered, and that comes to illuminate some of the major themes in the construction of Chinese modernity.
Missing Bodies
Missing Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Missing Bodies write by Monica Casper. This book was released on 2009-07. Missing Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labor, migration, medical tourism, and war. This new politicsof visibility can lead to the overexposure of some bodies—Lance Armstrong, Jessica Lynch—and to the near invisibility of others—dead Iraqi civilians, illegal immigrants, the victims of HIV/AIDS and "natural" disasters. Missing Bodies presents a call for a new, engaged way of seeing and recovering bodies in a world that routinely, often strategically,obscures or erases them. It poses difficult, even startling questions: Why did it take so long for the United States media to begin telling stories about the "falling bodies" of 9/11? Why has the United States government refused to allow photographs or filming of flag-draped coffins carrying the bodies of soldiers who are dying in Iraq? Why are the bodies of girls and women so relentlessly sexualized? By examining the cultural politics at work in such disappearances and inclusions of the physical body the authors show how the social, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society.
Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History write by Patrizia Gentile. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
