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Corpse Encounters - An Aesthetics of Death (Hardcover)
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Corpse Encounters - An Aesthetics of Death (Hardcover)
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This book takes a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to
the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering
options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial
and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation
and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible
futures of the dead that haunt the living, through both the stories
that we tell and physical manifestations following the end of life,
we expose the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as
the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization.
This book creates a space for ritualized practices surrounding
death: corpse disposal; corpse aesthetics that shape both practices
attendant upon and representations of the corpse; and literary,
figural, and cultural representations that deploy these practices
to tell a story about dead bodies-about their separation from the
living, about their disposability, and ultimately about the living
who survive the dead, if only for a while. There is an aesthetics
of erasure persistently at work on the dead body. It must be
quickly hidden from sight to shield us from the certain trauma of
our own demise, or so the unspoken argument goes.
Experts-scientists, forensic specialists, death-care professionals,
and law enforcement-are the only ones qualified to view the dead
for any extended period of time. The rest of us, with only brief
doses, inoculate ourselves from the materiality of death in complex
and highly ritualized ceremonies. Beyond participating in the
project of restoring our sense of finitude, we try to make sense of
the untouchable, unviewable, haunting, and taboo presence of the
corpse itself.
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