Identifying marks: race, gender, and the marked body in nineteenth-century America
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1. Verfasser: Putzi, Jennifer (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens University of Georgia Press c2006
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-190) and index
List of illustrations -- - Acknowledgments -- - Introduction : "Carved in flesh" -- - 1 - Capturing identity in ink : tattooing and the white captive -- - 2 - "Burning into the bone" : romantic love and the marked woman -- - 3 - "Tattooed still" : the inscription of female agency -- - 4. "The - skin of an American slave" : the mark of African American manhood in abolitionist literature -- - 5 - "Raising the stigma" : African American women and the corporeal legacy of slavery -- - Epilogue : Tattooed ladies -- - Notes -- - Works cited -- - Index
"What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Dick's Queequeg. This study looks at the presence of marked men and women in a more challenging array of canonical and lesser-known works, including exploration narratives, romances, and frontier novels. Jennifer Putzi shows how tattoos, scars, and brands can function both as stigma and as emblem of healing and survival, thus blurring the borderline between the biological and social, the corporeal and spiritual."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 195 p.)
ISBN:082032812X
0820343951
9780820328126
9780820343952

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