Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker

Curtin, Maureen F. (Author)

ISBN 10: 0415866995 / ISBN 13: 9780415866996

Published by Routledge, 2015

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1st edition. 192 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415866995
• ISBN 13: 9780415866996
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.36 kilograms

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Synopsis

Out of Touch investigates how skin has become a crucial but disavowed figure in twentieth-century literature, theory, and cultural criticism. These discourses reveal the extent to which skin figures in the cultural effect of changes in visual technologies, a development argued by critics to be at the heart of the contest between surface and depth and, by extension, Western globalization and identity politics. The skin has a complex history as a metaphorical terrain over which ideological wars are fought, identity is asserted through modification as in tattooing, and meaning is inscribed upon the human being. Yet even as interventions on the skin characterize much of this history, fantasy and science fiction literature and film trumpet skin's passing in the cybernetic age, and feminist theory calls for abandoning the skin as a hostile boundary.

About the Author

Maureen F. Curtin