Putzi Jennifer Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America 9780820343440

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Автор: Putzi Jennifer
Название: Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: 9780820343440
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

ISBN-10: 0820343447
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 208
Вес: 0.30 кг.
Дата издания: 30.03.2012
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations, figures
Размер: 221 x 145 x 15
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Social & cultural history
Подзаголовок: Race, gender and the marked body in nineteenth-century america
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with The Scarlet Letters Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Dicks Queequeg. This study looks at the presence of marked men and women in a more challenging array of canonical and lesser-known works, including exploration narratives, romances, and frontier novels. Jennifer Putzi shows how tattoos, scars, and brands can function both as stigma and as emblem of healing and survival, thus blurring the borderline between the biological and social, the corporeal and spiritual. Examining such texts as Typee, Uncle Toms Cabin, Captivity of the Oatman Girls, The Morgesons, Iola Leroy, and Contending Forces, Putzi relates the representation of the marked body to significant events, beliefs, or cultural shifts, including tattooing and captivity, romantic love, the patriarchal family, and abolition and slavery. Her particular focus is on both men and women of colour, as well as white women-in other words, bodies that did not signify person hood in the nineteenth century and thus by their very nature were grotesque. Complicating the discourse on agency, power, and identity, these texts reveal a surprisingly complex array of representations of and responses to the marked body -- some that are a product of essentialist thinking about race and gender identities and some that complicate, critique, or even rebel against conventional thought.

Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America, Putzi Jennifer