Derived from the Latin verb "gerere"-to carry, act, or do-"gesture"
has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized.
Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and provides a complex
theory on the value of gesture for understanding human sign
production. Gestures migrate from body to body, from one medium to
another, and between cultural contexts. Juxtaposing distinct
approaches to gesture in order to explore the ways in which they at
once shape and are influenced by culture, the contributors examine
the works of writers Henri Michaux and Stephane Mallarme,
photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and
filmmakers Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Martin Arnold, along with cultural
practices such as gang walking, ballet, and classical Indian dance.
The authors move deftly between an organic, phenomenal appreciation
of human expression and a historicist, semiotic understanding of
how the "human" is itself created through gestural routines.
Contributors: Mark Franko, U of California, Santa Cruz; Ketu H.
Katrak, U of California, Irvine; Akira Mizuta Lippit, U of Southern
California; Susan A. Phillips, Pitzer College; Deidre Sklar; Lesley
Stern, U of California, San Diego; Blake Stimson, U of California,
Davis. Carrie Noland is associate professor of French literature
and critical theory at the University of California, Irvine. Sally
Ann Ness is professor of anthropology at University of California,
Riverside.
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