Thinking the Limits of the Body
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Thinking the Limits of the Body

  1. 211 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

Shows the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in discussions of the body.

This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories (geographical bodies), and historical texts and ideas (a body of literature, a body of work), Cohen and Weiss seek trans-disciplinary points of resonance and divergence to examine how disciplinary metaphors materialize specific bodies, and where these bodies break down and/or refuse prescribed paths. Whereas postmodern theorizations of the body often neglect its corporeality in favor of its cultural construction, this book demonstrates the inseparability of textuality, materiality, and history in any discussion of the body.

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Table of contents

  1. Thinking the Limits of the Body
  2. CONTENTS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. Introduction: Bodies at the Limit by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Gail Weiss
  5. PART I: HORIZONS
  6. PART II: DERMAL BOUNDARIES
  7. PART III: RACIAL EDGES
  8. PART IV: DIS-ABLING ALLIANCES
  9. PART V: LIMINALITIES
  10. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
  11. INDEX