Body, Subject & Subjected: The Representation of the Body Itself, Illness, Injury, Treatment & Death in Spain & Indigenous & Hispanic American Art & Literature by Sussex Academic Press (Hardback, 2016)
Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first selfies were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to contemporary social media, the contemporary term selfie was self-generated. The book illuminates some selfies . This collection of critical essays about the fixation on the human self addresses a multi-faceted geographic set of cultures -- the Iberian Peninsula to pre-Columbian America and Hispanic America -- analysing such representations from medical, literal and metaphorical perspectives over centuries. Chapter contributions address the representation of the body itself as subject, in both visual and textual manners, and illuminate attempts at control of the environment, of perception, of behaviour and of actions, by artists and authors. Other chapters address the body as subjected to circumstance, representing the body as affected by factors such as illness, injury, treatment and death. These myriad effects on the body are interpreted through the brushes of painters and the pens of authors for social and/or personal control purposes. The essays reveal critics insights when selfies are examined through a focused lens over a breadth of cultures. The result, complex and unique, is that what is viewed -- the visual art and literature under discussion -- becomes a mirror image, indistinguishable from the component viewing apparatus, the lens .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
ISBN-10
1845197402
ISBN-13
9781845197407
eBay Product ID (ePID)
217541869
Product Key Features
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Brighton
Edited by
Debra D. Andrist
Content Note
Illus
Author Biography
Dr. Debra D. Andrist is Professor of Spanish at Sam Houston State University (SHSU), was multi-term founding chair of Foreign Languages there, former multi-term Chair of Modern & Classical Languages/Cullen Professor of Spanish at the University of St. Thomas/Houston (UST) and rose to Associate Professor of Spanish, Baylor University. Her scholarly work focuses on art and literature by and about women and medical topics.
Date of Publication
01/01/2016
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
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