The Embodyment of American Culture (Paperback)

The first part of this book presents cultural studies including: Overweight Subjectivities and Resistances; Penis Envy, Aesthetic Autoplasty and Genital Reconstruction; the Pierced and Tattoed Body; Bruce Springsteen's Working-Class Masculinity in the 1980s; and Demonic Images of Food, Bodies and the Desire to Eat. The second part focuses on textual studies such as: the Repulsive and Eroticized Bodies of Djuna Barnes; the "Feminine" Body in Modern American Poetry; the Surrender of the Body in Mary Oliver and Amy Clampitt's Ecopoetry; Violence in American Opera and Tod Browning's "Freaks."
Heinz Tschachler is Professor for American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
Maureen Devine is researcher at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
Michael Draxlbauer is researcher at the University of Vienna.

General

Imprint:	Lit Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	June 2005
First published:	August 2004
Editors:	Heinz Tschachler • Maureen Devine • Michael Draxlbauer
Dimensions:	209 x 147 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-3-8258-6762-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	3-8258-6762-5
Barcode:	9783825867621

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