Tattooed Bodies

Theorizing Body Inscription Across Disciplines and Cultures

James Martell, Erik Larsen

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
22 January 2023

Body art & tattooing; Film, TV & Radio; Popular culture

Series: Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body

The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with diverse disciplinary perspectives in art history, continental philosophy, media studies, psychoanalysis, critical theory, literary studies, biopolitics, and cultural anthropology, the volume reflects the sheer diversity of meanings attributed to tattoos throughout history and across cultures. Essays explore conceptualizations of tattoos and tattooing in Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, Agamben, and Jean-Luc Nancy, while utilizing theoretical perspectives to interpret tattoos in literary works by Melville, Beckett, Kafka, Genet, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others. Tattooed Bodies prompts readers to explore a few significant questions: Are tattoos unique phenomena or an art medium in need of special theoretical exploration? If so, what conceptual paradigms and theories might best shape our understanding of tattoos and their complex ubiquity in world cultures and histories?

Edited by: James Martell, Erik Larsen
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2022 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 491g
ISBN: 9783030865689
ISBN 10: 3030865681
Series: Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 22 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Martell is Associate Professor of French at Lyon College, USA. He specializes in French literary theory, aesthetics, and philosophy. Erik Larsen is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester, USA. He writes and teaches about biopolitics, medicine and literature, and American culture.