The Body as Interface. Dialogues between the Disciplines. [American Studies. A Monograph Series, Vol. 150].

Sielke, Sabine and Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche:

ISBN 10: 3825353915 / ISBN 13: 9783825353919

Published by Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007

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338 p. Very good. Shrink wrapped. / Sehr guter Zustand. In Folie verschweißt. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 577.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Body as Interface. Dialogues between the Disciplines. [American Studies. A Monograph Series, Vol. 150].
• Publisher: Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3825353915
• ISBN 13: 9783825353919
• Binding: Hardcover/Pappeinband
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 577 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kulturwissenschaft

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Synopsis

The body is a battleground. As such it has been at the center of debates in cultural and gender studies for over two decades. The concept of a culturally constructed, gendered, racialized, and class-contoured body which emerged from these debates is meanwhile being challenged, though, by an increasing impact of the life sciences. Evolving from neurobiology, molecular genetics, and biotechnology are projections of a post- or transhuman subject as well as new insights into our corporeality and the ways our bodies interrelate with the world. Situating the body at an intersection of a range of discourses in the human, social, and natural sciences, this collection of essays explores this fundamental shift by way of dialogues between disciplines in the course of which our sense of beauty and human nature, memory and trauma, immunity, power, and pain is being transformed.

About the Author

Die Herausgeberin: Sabine Sielke ist Professorin fur Nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kultur-wissenschaft und Leiterin des Nordamerikastudienprogramms der Universitat Bonn. Zu ihren Veroffentlichungen gehoren Fashioning the Female Subject (1997) und Reading Rape (2002) sowie Editionen und Essays im Bereich der Geschlechterstudien, Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, afroamerikanischen Kultur, amerikanischen Moderne, Kunst und Popularkultur.