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Body, Subject & Subjected
Debra D. Andrist (Ed.)
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Description for Body, Subject & Subjected
Hardcover. Editor(s): Andrist, Debra D. Num Pages: 256 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KL; 2ADS; ACBK; DS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first selfies were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to contemporary social media, the contemporary term selfie was self-generated. The book illuminates some selfies . This collection of critical essays about the fixation on the human self addresses a multi-faceted geographic set of cultures -- the Iberian Peninsula to pre-Columbian America and Hispanic America -- analysing such representations from medical, literal and ... Read more
Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first selfies were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to contemporary social media, the contemporary term selfie was self-generated. The book illuminates some selfies . This collection of critical essays about the fixation on the human self addresses a multi-faceted geographic set of cultures -- the Iberian Peninsula to pre-Columbian America and Hispanic America -- analysing such representations from medical, literal and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845197407
SKU
V9781845197407
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99-50
About Debra D. Andrist (Ed.)
Dr Debra D Andrist, Professor of Spanish at Sam Houston State University (SHSU), was multi-term founding chair of Foreign Languages there, former multi-term Chair of Modern & Classical Languages/Cullen Professor of Spanish at the University of St. Thomas/Houston (UST) and rose to Associate Professor of Spanish, Baylor University. Her scholarly work focuses on art and literature by and about women ... Read more
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