Transacting sites of the liminal bodily spaces
By: by Catalina Florina Florescu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781443826938
Subjects: Massenmedien; Anthropologie; Liminality in literature; Human body in literature; Sterben; Comparative literature; Künste; Mind and body in literature; Körper
Description: "This book focuses on liminal bodies and their delicate transaction with themselves and other people's bodies. More specifically, it explores the spatiality and discourses of the body dying; the body opened in surgery, or through MRIs, CATs, and sometimes in autopsies; the body preserved through computerized images such as those created by the Visual Human Project; the metonymic body that continues to live in another body through organ replacement; and the bodily parts cast in silver, and then abandoned in a museum.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180).