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Fabricating the Body: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse

Fabricating the Body: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse

          
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Fabricating the Body: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourses is comprised of nine chapters that revolve around the body, and more specifically, issues related to identity. The text draws on a variety of criticism-including disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies-to theorize aspects relevant to the human body historically. For example, Rachel Herzl-Betz's A Paratactic 'Missing Link': Dorian Gray and the Performance of Embodied Modernity uses disability studies as a lens through which to examine Oscar Wilde's literary debt to the atavistic discourse of late-Victorian freak shows. Moving forward in time, Melissa Ames's chapter, Bodies of Debt: Interrogating the Costs of Technological Progress, Scientific Advancement, and Social Conquests through Dystopian Literature is a pedagogy-focused chapter. In the chapter, Ames discusses a college course in which she asked students to consider contemporary debates, such as cloning, stem cell research, human trafficking, and so forth, in tandem with fictional texts that relate these issues. Ultimately, the class wrestled with the question of: what do we do when human survival and societal progress come at extreme costs? As a whole, the text works to stimulate conversations surrounding the body, and specifically, bodies that can be labeled indebted. Fabricating the Body brings together issues of gender, class, and identity, and investigates ethical concerns along with topics related to marginalization and the mind/body split. Ultimately, the text situates the body as a productive space for academic research.
About the Author: Sarah Himsel Burcon is a Lecturer in the Program for Technical Communication in the Engineering Department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She received her PhD in 20th Century American Literature and specializes in technical communication, feminist theory, American literature, popular culture, and linguistics. She has published in anthologies and encyclopedias, and her most recent publications include her co-edited book, Women and Language: Essays on Gendered Communication Across Media (2011); chapters in Time in Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality in 21st Century Programming (2012) and Revisiting the Past through Rhetorics of Memory and Amnesia (2011); and articles for Women and Popular Culture Encyclopedia (2013).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443852326
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 376 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1443852325
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 206 mm
  • No of Pages: 170
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse
  • Width: 147 mm


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