Identifying Marks Race, Gender and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America |
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| Author:
| Putzi, Jennifer |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-4344-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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This study looks at the presence of marked people in canonical and lesser-known works, including exploration narratives, romances, and frontier novels. Putzi shows how tattoos, scars, and brands function both as stigma and as emblem of healing and survival, blurring the line between the biological and social, the corporeal and spiritual.
This study looks at the presence of marked people in canonical and lesser-known works, including exploration narratives, romances, and frontier novels. Putzi shows how tattoos, scars, and brands function both as stigma and as emblem of healing and survival, blurring the line between the biological and social, the corporeal and spiritual.