Thinking the limits of the body / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.

Weiss, Gail, 1959-

Series:

SUNY series in aesthetics and the philosophy of art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Human body (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

vi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Summary:

This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body.

Contents:

Introduction: Bodies at the Limit / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Gail Weiss 1

Part I Horizons

1. Histories of the Present and Future: Feminism, Power, Bodies / Elizabeth Grosz 13

2. The Body as a Narrative Horizon / Gail Weiss 25

Part II Dermal Boundaries

3. Cutups in Beauty School / Linda S. Kauffman 39

4. Deep Skin / William A. Cohen 63

Part III Racial Edges

5. Ontological Crisis and Double Narration in African American Fiction: Reconstructing Our Nig / Laura Doyle 85

6. Parallaxes: Cannibalism and Self-Embodiment; or, The Calvinist Reading of Tupi A-Theology / Sara Castro-Klaren 101

Part IV Dis-Abling Alliances

7. Making Freaks: Visual Rhetorics and the Spectacle of Julia Pastrana / Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 129

8. Critical Investments: AIDS, Christopher Reeve, and Queer/Disability Studies / Robert McRuer 145

Part V Liminalities

9. The Inhuman Circuit / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 167

10. Mourning the Autonomous Body / Debra B. Bergoffen 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791455998

0791456005

OCLC:

50851578