ISBN:
9781137264114
,
9781137264121
,
9781137264138
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 235 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Corpus Anarchicum : Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Political violence Social aspects
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Terrorism Religious aspects
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Islam
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Human body Political aspects
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Violence
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Suicide bombings Social aspects
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Ethnology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Dabashi's newest book is a meditation on suicidal violence in the immediate context of its most recent political surge and a critical examination of the radical transformation of the human body, supported by close readings of cinematic and artistic evidence
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest, Suicidal Violence,and the Making of the Posthuman Body; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Suicidal Violence; The Making of a Posthuman Body; Clouds of Ashes; Body Doubles; Veiling as Countervailing the Colonial; Marking the Colonial Body; Bodies Veiled, Bodies Unveiled; The Material and the Metaphoric Bodies; Tehran in the Mirror of Paris; The Solitary Site of State Violence; In the Absence of the Face; Save His Face; The Unseen Cannot Be Seen; A Sign Is No Signifier; Repressing Vision; Bodiless Faces; Like Ghostly Apparitions
Description / Table of Contents:
Bodies and FacesTruth and Veiling; The Anxiety of Surface; The Vivid Lantern ofEmotions in Search of a Body; Homeless Emotions; From Disillusioned Artists to Their Critics; Between Poetry and Censorship; Absenting the Other; Forming Bodiless Faces; The Serenity of a Distanced Gaze; Bordercrossings; Veiling and Revealing; A Bodily Resurrection; The Global Gaze; The Space In Between; Caro Spiritualis; Voice, Vision, and Veiling; Watching a Soccer Game; Building Visual Memories; The Next Move; Gender Apartheid; Blinding the Body to Itself; Corpus Amorphous; Removing an Eye (for an Eye)
Description / Table of Contents:
The Political Body under ControlA Historic Battle; The Body Is Dangerous; Corpus Anarchicum; Uprising; The Military and the Militant; The Palestinian, the Arab, and the Muslim; Forcing the Face; The State Control of the Posthuman Body; Conclusion: A Postmortem; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Conclusion; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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