Tattoos, Desire and Violence - 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 Tattoos, Desire and Violence write by Karin Beeler. This book was released on 2015-01-27. Tattoos, Desire and Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether they graphically depict an individual's or a community's beliefs, express the defiance of authority, or brand marginalized groups, tattoos are a means of interpersonal communication that dates back thousands of years. Evidence of the tattoo's place in today's popular culture is all around--in advertisements, on the stereotypical outlaw character in films and television, in supermarket machines that dispense children's wash-away tattoos, and even in the production of a tattooed Barbie doll. This book explores the tattoo's role, primarily as an emblem of resistance and marginality, in recent literature, film, and television. The association of tattoos with victims of the Holocaust, slaves, and colonized peoples; with gangs, inmates, and other marginalized groups; and the connection of the tattoo narrative to desire and violence are discussed at length.
Tattoos in crime and detective narratives
Tattoos in crime and detective narratives - 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 Tattoos in crime and detective narratives write by Kate Watson. This book was released on 2019-07-04. Tattoos in crime and detective narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television, and film from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and 1955 to present), this study makes an original contribution to understandings of crime and detective genre and the ways in which tattoos act as a mimetic device that marks and remarks these narratives in complex ways.
Intersectionality and Decolonisation in Contemporary British Crime Fiction
Intersectionality and Decolonisation in Contemporary British Crime 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 Intersectionality and Decolonisation in Contemporary British Crime Fiction write by Charlotte Beyer. This book was released on 2023-01-24. Intersectionality and Decolonisation in Contemporary British Crime Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Intersectionality and decolonisation are prominent themes in contemporary British crime fiction. Through an in-depth critical and contextual analysis of selected contemporary British crime fiction novels from the 1990s to 2018, this distinctive book examines representations of race, class, sexuality, and gender by John Harvey, Stella Duffy, M.Y. Alam, and Dorothy Koomson. It argues that contemporary British crime fiction is a field of contestation where urgent cultural and social questions are debated and the politics of representation explored. A significant resource which will be valuable to researchers and scholars of the crime genre, as well as British literature, this book offers timely critical engagement with intersectionality and decolonisation and their representation in contemporary British crime fiction.
Inked: Tattoos and Body Art around the World [2 volumes]
Inked: Tattoos and Body Art around the World [2 volumes] - 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 Inked: Tattoos and Body Art around the World [2 volumes] write by Margo DeMello. This book was released on 2014-05-30. Inked: Tattoos and Body Art around the World [2 volumes] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades, tattoos have gone from being a subculture curiosity in Western culture to mainstream and commonplace. This two-volume set provides broad coverage of tattooing and body art in the United States today as well as around the world and throughout human history. In the 1960s, tattooing was illegal in many parts of the United States. Today, tattooing is fully ingrained in mainstream culture and is estimated to be a multi-billion-dollar industry. This exhaustive work contains approximately 400 entries on tattooing, providing historical information that enables readers to fully understand the methods employed, the meanings of, and the motivations behind tattooing—one of the most ancient ways humans mark themselves. The encyclopedia covers all important aspects of the topic of tattooing: the major types of tattooing, the cultural groups associated with tattooing, the regions of the world where tattooing has been performed, the origins of modern tattooing in prehistory, and the meaning of each society's use of tattoos. Major historical and contemporary figures associated with tattooing—including tattooists, tattooed people, and tattoo promoters—receive due attention for their contributions. The entries and sidebars also address the sociological movements involved with tattooing; the organizations; the media dedicated to tattooing, such as television shows, movies, magazines, websites, and books; and the popular conventions, carnivals, and fairs that have showcased tattooing.
The Pleasure of the Feminist Text
The Pleasure of the Feminist Text - 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 The Pleasure of the Feminist Text write by Susanne Gruss. This book was released on 2009. The Pleasure of the Feminist Text available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "I would regard myself as a feminist writer, because I'm a feminist in everything else and one can't compartmentalise these things in one's life." (Angela Carter) "When I became a feminist in 1968, I felt that I'd come home: the first home I ever had that was feminine. And it was very wild and theatrical and erotic, the early feminism." (Michèle Roberts) Angela Carter and Michèle Roberts share a keen interest in gender and sexual identity, but many of their topics seem to mark them as opposites: Roberts's fascination with the impact of religion, motherhood and autobiography on female identity covers areas that Carter shuns in her writings. In reading these two authors parallel and in contrast to each other, this monograph follows a triple objective: it provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the works of Roberts, explores aspects of Carter's work that have not yet been analyzed sufficiently (religion, motherhood, and masculinity), and uses both authors to explore motifs and strategies of feminist writing. The analyses of both authors' works are supplemented by close readings of a wide range of theoretical perspectives (especially French feminism and psychoanalysis) and concise theoretical outlines of the topics covered (radical feminism, religion, motherhood and fatherhood, masculinity, fairy tales, romances and chick lit, and history and auto/biography).
