Borderline bodies in art and visual culture

'In an era that fears breakdown of bodily boundaries and immunities, the chapters in Borderline Bodies challenge us to embrace deviance and exposure and openness. This book signals a transgressive new corporeal turn - a postcolonial materialism - in the borderspaces of health humanities.' —Warwick Anderson, author of Intolerant Bodies and Spectacles of Waste ‘This groundbreaking volume of interdisciplinary visual studies provides wide-ranging analyses of the complex cultures of Borderline bodies across our globalised world. Disrupting scholarly boundaries in art, medicine and society and customary views on gender, race and ethnicity, the authors offer important new insights into visual representations of borderline and marginal human bodies.’ —Anthea Callen, Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture, University of Nottingham ‘A very exciting volume that is sure to stimulate multiple fields of inquiry.’ —Andrew Graciano, Director of the School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina ‘Ambitiously traversing diverse geographies, historical periods, and interdisciplinary methodologies, these essays offer vivid, meticulously fine-grained analyses of a panoply of visual materials. Borderline Bodies reveals the generative potentials of specific “contact points” between disciplines, media, and identity formations, and develops innovative conceptual tools for studying representations relating to multiply-marginalised bodies.’ —Roger Nelson, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore -- .