The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body - Hardcover

Zoe Detsi-Diamanti Effie Yiannopoulou Zoe (EDT) Katerina (EDT) Kitsi-Mitakou Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou; Zoe Detsi-Diamanti; Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230613470 ISBN 13: 9780230613478

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009

Synopsis

The Future of Flesh examines ways in which “flesh” has been re-conceptualized in late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Its twelve essays analyze contemporary attitudes to corporeal change resulting from pain, death, artistic experimentation or technological intervention, and highlight current transformations in the very definition of “flesh.” Cross-disciplinary in their approach, the essays in this collection investigate the  limits, the politics and the ethics surrounding corporeal change, and address topics that range from classical heroic bodies, and breast cancer photography to cyberfiction.

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About the Author

Zoe Detsi-Diamanti is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is the author of Early American Women Dramatists, 1775-1860 and articles in American Drama, American Studies, New England Theater Journal, and Prospects.

Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou is Assistant Professor in English Literature and Culture in the School of English, Aristotle University. She is the author of Feminist Readings of the Body in Virginia Woolf’s Novels and has contributed to volumes on Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen and co-edited The Flesh Made Text Made Flesh: Cultural and Theoretical Returns to the Body.

Effie Yiannopoulou is Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Theory at Aristotle University. She has co-edited Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility, The Flesh Made Text Made Flesh: Cultural and Theoretical Returns to the Body, and special issues of The European Journal of English Studies (EJES) and Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism.

Review

"The book offers an emergent approach to body theory by concentrating on the materiality and 'radical alterity' of the flesh, as opposed to canonical theories of social construction of the body....an excellent contribution to cultural studies and body criticism."--Choice

"The volume continues in the tradition of moving away from essentialisms and makes an important contribution to the ongoing project of thinking through the body."--EJAS

“This is the time of the corpse, the comatose body, the cosmetically enhanced body and the chimera...This collection of essays insightfully explores the gendered, the mythological, the medical, the mutated, and the avatar body.”—STELARC, Chair in Performance Arts, Brunel University West London and Senior Research Fellow, MARCS, University of Western Sydney

“An amazing collection of essays on locating the body--in art, medicine, culture, and theory--with a serious attempt to engage all our theoretical as well as pragmatic interests as owners and operators of bodies.”--Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0230613470
• ISBN 13: 9780230613478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Effie Yiannopoulou