Description
Book SynopsisAn impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.
Trade Review'The exploration of the implications of abjection: being abject, positioning as abject, for the visual and performing arts defines for this collection a double relevance. It adds to the study of abjection; it adds also to the analysis of a range of artistic practices.... most of the chapters will themselves become significant in their areas while the whole performs an enlivening re-engagement and expansion of abjection as a term in contemporary cultural analysis.'
Griselda Pollock
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Approaching abjection - Rina Arya and Nicholas Chare
1. Art, abjection and bare life - John Lechte
2. A lesbian, feminist and Canadian perspective: queering abjection - Jayne Wark
3. Manet's Abject Surrealism - Nicholas Chare
4. Juan Davila's abject after-image - Rex Butler and A. D. S. Donaldson
5. Animals, art, abjection - Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn
6. The fragmented body as an index of abjection - Rina Arya
7. Skin, body, self: the question of the abject in the work of Francis Bacon - Ernst van Alphen
8. Abjection, melancholia and ambiguity in the works of Catherine Bell - Estelle Barrett
9. Corpus Delicti - Kerstin Mey
10. Art is on the way: from the abject opening of underworld to the shitty ending of oblivion - Calvin Thomas
11. Base materials: performing the abject object - Daniel Watt
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