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Probing the skin : cultural representations of our contact zone

Title
Probing the skin : cultural representations of our contact zone / edited by Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke.
Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Rosenthal, Caroline, 1969-
  • Vanderbeke, Dirk, 1958-
Description
vi, 341 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subjects
Contents
Literature -- The Treachery of (Local) Colour : Representations of Skin in Louisiana Local Colour Stories / Florian Freitag -- Probing the Scar: An Exploration of Cultural Duality in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Possessing the Secret of Joy / Agnieszka Lobodziec -- ̀Blackening' the Smell of Skin : The Odour of Race in Modernist and Postmodernist Literature / Daniela Babilon -- ̀To Highlight My Beautiful Chocolate Skin' : On the Cultural Politics of the Racialised Epidermis / Silke Hackenesch -- Becoming White in Europe : Skin Discourses and Skin Colour in Contemporary Irish Literature / Sarah Heinz -- An Artist's Second Skin : The Exploration of Skin in Tanizaki Junichiro's "The Tattooer" ("Shisei") / Ana Dosen -- "An Interminable Cretan Labyrinth" : Tattoos as Text in Melville's Sea Fiction / Kerstin Knopf -- Artistic Explorations -- Ventriculus : Residue of Subjectivity / Marie Bannerot McInerney -- A Rash, a Burn, a Bite: Inhabiting Canadian Skin / Aritha Van Herk -- Visual Media and Film -- Marie-Guillemine Benoist's ̀Portrait d'une negresse' and the Visibility of Skin Colour / Mechthild Fend -- Roses and Daggers : Expressions of Emotional Pain and Devotion in 19th-Century Tattoos / Gemma Angel -- Skin Portraiture : Relational Embodiment and Contemporary Art / Heidi Kellett -- Tattoo Art and Art Tattoos : Tattooing as an Artistic Medium since the 1970s / Sabine Kampmann -- Realism versus the Real Thing : Showing Skin in Art and Medicine / Ann Ponten -- Terrifying Skin / Almut Weitze -- Skin-Deep Memos as Prosthetic Memory in Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000) / Catalina Botez
Call Number
JFD 15-2748
ISBN
  • 1443870684
  • 9781443870689
OCLC
900179520
Title
Probing the skin : cultural representations of our contact zone / edited by Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke.
Publisher
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Rosenthal, Caroline, 1969-
Vanderbeke, Dirk, 1958-
Research Call Number
JFD 15-2748
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