The Human Body In Contemporary Literatures In English
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The Human Body in Contemporary Literatures in English
Author | : Sabine Coelsch-Foisner |
Publisher | : Salzburg Studies in English Literature and Culture SEL & C |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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The human body is a recurrent theme in contemporary literatures in English. The aim of this collection of essays is to explore its multiple representations and functions within a wide range of texts drawn together from various Anglophone cultures. For thematic coherence, this volume is divided into four parts: Diseased Bodies, Invented Bodies, Gendered and Transgender Bodies, and Fragmented and Mutilated Bodies. By adopting multi-disciplinary perspectives, each group of essays illustrates the different ways in which these become multiply signifying sites of cultural and political representation, whether the mode is realistic or daringly speculative and fantastic, as in the case of genetically designed bodies, monstrous and machine bodies. This book contributes to understanding the body as a culture-specific construct.
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