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Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death

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Description for Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 412.

"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."—from the Introduction

American popular culture conducts a passionate love affair with the healthy, fit, preferably beautiful body, and in recent years theories of embodiment have assumed importance in various scholarly disciplines. But what of the dying or dead body? Why do we avert our gaze, speak of it only as absence? This thoughtful and beautifully written book—illustrated with photographs by Shellburne Thurber and other remarkable ... Read more

Laura E. Tanner focuses her keen attention on photographs of AIDS patients and abandoned living spaces; newspaper accounts of September 11; literary works by Don DeLillo, Donald Hall, Sharon Olds, Marilynne Robinson, and others; and material objects, including the AIDS Quilt. She analyzes the way in which these representations of the body reflect current cultural assumptions, revealing how Americans read, imagine, and view the dynamics of illness and loss. The disavowal of bodily dimensions of death and grief, she asserts, deepens rather than mitigates the isolation of the dying and the bereaved. Lost Bodies will speak to anyone imperiled by the threat of loss.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
411g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801473135
SKU
V9780801473135
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Laura E. Tanner
Laura E. Tanner is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction.

Reviews for Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death
"In Lost Bodies, Laura Tanner suggestively and elegantly draws together the theoretical co-implications of consumer agency and the body, feminist and phenomenological concepts of intercorporeality, Freudian and Lacanian taxonomies of mourning, as well as visual analysis to investigate confrontations with corporeal vulnerability and loss in a variety of contemporary narratives. Tanner sustains these theoretical and interpretative juxtapositions with equally compelling ... Read more

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