Tattoos in crime and detective narratives : marking and remarking / edited by Kate Watson and Katherine Cox.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Kate, 1984- editor.

Cox, Katherine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tattooing.

Criminology--History.

Criminology.

Body art.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 275 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Tattoos in crime and detective narratives examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film, from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c1955 to present). It 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. With a focus on tattooing as a bodily narrative, the book incorporates the critical perspectives of posthumanism, spatiality, postcolonialism, embodiment and gender studies. The grouped essays examine the first tattoo renaissance, the rebirth of the tattoo in contemporary culture through literature, children's literature, film and television. The collection has a broad appeal, and will be of interest to all literature and media scholars, but in particular those with an interest in crime and detective narratives and skin studies.

Contents:

pt. 1 Psychoanalysis, patternings and the medical imagination

1. A knot of bodies: The tattoo as navel in Louisa May Alcott's `V.V.: Or, plots and counterplots' / Alexander N. Howe

2. Making Manhattan: Urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in Edgar Allan Poe's `The tell-tale heart' and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; Or, the whale / Spencer Jordan

3. Medical men: Speculations of morality and spirituality in Arthur Conan Doyle's writings / David Beck

pt. 2 Practitioners, place and contemporary identities

4. From naive artists to integrated professionals: The portrayal of tattoos in Sarah Hall's The electric Michelangelo and Alan Kent's Voodoo pilchard / Hywel Dix

5. Mis-reading moko: Cross-cultural tattooing in Caryl Ferey's New Zealand crime fiction / Ellen Carter

6. Transforming tattoos of the girl with the dragon tattoo / Kerstin Bergman

pt. 3 Urban textualities, humans and other animals

7. The killing floor and crime narratives: Marking women and nonhuman animals / Rebekah Humphreys

8. The tattoo wakes: Sentient ink, curatorship and writing the new weird in China Mieville's Kraken: An anatomy / Katharine Cox

pt. 4 Children's literature: Dark marks, scars and secret societies

9. Dark marks, curse scars and corporal punishment: Criminality and the function of bodily marks in the Harry Potter series / Lucy Andrew

10. `Since the schism': Reading the tattoo in Lemony Snicket's A series of unfortunate events / Katharine Cox

pt. 5 Film: Adaptation, memory and constructions of self

11. The ink of the real: Memory and identity in Christopher Nolan's Memento / Peter Figler

12. The Bounty mutiny and its adaptations: Tattooing, primitivism, class and criminality / Matt Oches

pt. 6 Television: Branding, tech-noir and fan culture

13. Hunting for the branded body in Supernatural: Tattoos, the Mark of Cain and fan culture / Karin Beeler

14. Generic branding: Tattoos, transgenics, and tech-noir in Dark angel / Will Slocombe

15. Tattoos, deviance and consumer culture in North American television: Criminal minds, CSI: NY and Law and order / John Miller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5261-2868-3

OCLC:

1149149755