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Through the Body: Chiromancy in 17th-Century England The early modernity inherited the ancient and medieval conviction that normally hidden knowledge about fellow humans could be obtained by an inspection of particular parts of their bodies. It was the hand that was considered especially informative, as it contained lines and other natural marks that were supposed to form a kind of alphabet that could...
The article considers the ways in which postcolonial speculative fiction conceptualizes the Othered body—particularly the female body—as the corporeal manifestation of collective memory as well as the historical narrative. Therefore, the article proposes that for three authors: Larissa Lai, Suzette Mayr, and Andrea Hairston, the experience of the body constitutes a fundamental element of constructing...
(For abstract in English scroll down)Celem tego artykułu jest przedstawienie uniformów/kostiumów jako masek, które władza dyscyplinująca nakłada na podmioty. Przez kostium rozumiem zarówno materialny obiekt, jak i abstrakcyjny zbiór zasad, zgodnie z którymi formowane lub tresowane są ciała. Tak definiowana maska jest medium, które z jednej strony zakrywa indywidualne cechy tego, kto ją nosi, z drugiej...
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