The embodyment of american culture

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The embodyment of american culture

Heinz Tschachler, Maureen Devine, Michael Draxlbauer (eds.)

(American studies in Austria, v.2)

Lit, c2003

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American culture has literally become fixated on the body at the same time that the body has emerged as a key term within critical and cultural theory. Contributions thus address the body as a site of the cultural construction of various identities, which are themselves enacted, negotiated, or subverted through bodily practices. Contributions come from literary and cultural studies, film and media studies, history and sociology, and women studies, and are representative of many theoretical positions, hermeneutic, historical, structuralist, feminist, postmodernist. They deal with representations and discursifications of the body in a broad array of texts, in literature, the visual arts, theater, the performing arts, film and mass media, science and technology, as well as in various cultural practices.

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  • NCID
    BB21564504
  • ISBN
    • 3825867625
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Münster
  • Pages/Volumes
    221 p., [5] p. of plates
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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