Bodies in Flux
Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism
Published on 5. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
180 pages
978-90-04-40590-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers an insight into a selection of current issues of embodiment and other related aspects, such as identity, gender, disability, or sexuality, discussed on the basis of examples from contemporary culture and social life. Inspired by Donna Haraway's concept of the cyborg as a transgressor of boundaries, the book examines fluidity of post-human bodies - from cyber relations to others and to self, enabled by the latest technologies, through fragmented, prostheticised, monstrous or augmented body of popular culture and lifestyles, to the dis/utopian fantasies offered by literary texts - showing how difficult it still is in current culture to let go of the stable boundaries towards the post-gender world Haraway imagines.
Contributors are Dawn Woolley, Anna Pilinska, Barbara Braid, Jana Reynolds, Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca, Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodriguez, Katharina Vester, Wojciech Smieja and Hanan Muzaffar.
Contributors are Dawn Woolley, Anna Pilinska, Barbara Braid, Jana Reynolds, Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca, Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodriguez, Katharina Vester, Wojciech Smieja and Hanan Muzaffar.
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Series
Edition
xiin 168pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
249 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-40590-5 (9789004405905)
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Persons
Dr. Hanan Muzaffar is Dean of Student Affairs and Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Kuwait. She received her PhD from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2000. Her most recent publication is a feminist reading of Djuna Barnes and Margaret Atwood, published in 2011.
Dr. Barbara Braid is Assistant Professor at the English Institute of Szczecin University. She received her PhD from Opole University in 2017. Her academic interests include neo-Victorian and gothic fictions and adaptations. Her recent publications include the edited volume Gender under Construction (Brill, 2018).
Dr. Barbara Braid is Assistant Professor at the English Institute of Szczecin University. She received her PhD from Opole University in 2017. Her academic interests include neo-Victorian and gothic fictions and adaptations. Her recent publications include the edited volume Gender under Construction (Brill, 2018).
Content
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism
?Hanan Muzaffar and Barbara Braid
Part 1
Streaming the Body: Digital Media and the Embodiment
1 The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities
?Dawn Woolley
2 "Bodies We Obsess Upon": Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014)
?Anna Pilinska
Part 2
Extending the Body: Biotechnology, Fluidity, Monstrosity
3 Body Going 'Gaga': Lady Gaga, Disability and the Gothic body
?Barbara Braid
4 "This Guy Is Such a Machine!" Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle Media
?Jana Melkumova-Reynolds
5 Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era
?Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca and Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodriguez
Part 3
Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender
6 POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s
?Katharina Vester
7 From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature
?Wojciech Smieja
8 Margaret Atwood's Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity
?Hanan Muzaffar
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism
?Hanan Muzaffar and Barbara Braid
Part 1
Streaming the Body: Digital Media and the Embodiment
1 The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities
?Dawn Woolley
2 "Bodies We Obsess Upon": Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014)
?Anna Pilinska
Part 2
Extending the Body: Biotechnology, Fluidity, Monstrosity
3 Body Going 'Gaga': Lady Gaga, Disability and the Gothic body
?Barbara Braid
4 "This Guy Is Such a Machine!" Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle Media
?Jana Melkumova-Reynolds
5 Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era
?Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca and Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodriguez
Part 3
Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender
6 POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s
?Katharina Vester
7 From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature
?Wojciech Smieja
8 Margaret Atwood's Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity
?Hanan Muzaffar
Index