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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2012

    186189872X / 9781861898722

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2012

    186189872X / 9781861898722

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Reaktion Books, Limited, 2012

    186189872X / 9781861898722

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    Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2012

    186189872X / 9781861898722

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    Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 319pp. Numerous b&w photos, several in color. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2004

    0816644845 / 9780816644841

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2004

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    Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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    Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Reaktion Books, London, 2012

    186189872X / 9781861898722

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    Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. A real nice clean 319 page first edition (stated first published 2012) softcover. Has just a touch of wear and is very nice. full of color and black & white photos. Brings together photos essays from some of the foremost writers and critics on photography today and the past. These essays showcase the work of photographers involved in the making of photographs of brutality as well as the artists' own reflections on these images. Together these essays cover the historical and geographical range of atrocity photographs and respond to current concerns about such disturbing images. this book is not for the weak of heart. Size: 9h x 6 1/2w. Book.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Taylor & Francis Group, 2008

    0415435676 / 9780415435673

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    Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Eyewear Publishing, United Kingdom, London, 2024

    1915406803 / 9781915406804

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    Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2004

    0816644845 / 9780816644841

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2004

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    Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2002

    0231118759 / 9780231118750

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2002

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    Zustand: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2005

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    Paperback. pp. 224. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2011

    186189872X / 9781861898722

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2002

    0231118759 / 9780231118750

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    Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. No markings. Some minor shelf and handling wear.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2012

    186189872X / 9781861898722

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  • Sprache: Englisch

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    1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered white cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xi + 384, illus with b&w photos in text (no inscriptions).

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: University of Chicago press, 2012

    186189872X / 9781861898722

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2002

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Reaktion Books, London, 2012., 2012

    186189872X / 9781861898722

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    8vo, 318pp, illustrated. As new paperback copy.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2004

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2004

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2004

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, US, 2004

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    Paperback. Zustand: New. When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory's loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but memento mori: reminders of the fact of death itself. And it is in this, Jay Prosser tells us, that we find the gift of photography. Engaging the photographic reflections of figures as different as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Gordon Parks and Elizabeth Bishop, Light in the Dark Room offers a vision of photography as realization of loss-and a revelation of how photographs can shed light on the dark rooms of our lives. Beginning with an analysis of Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Prosser explores the relationship of autobiography and photography and then considers Lévi-Strauss's last published book, his photographic memoir; he uncovers the collection of photography painstakingly assembled by poet Elizabeth Bishop but never published; and he recounts the story of a forgotten Brazilian boy from the 1960s who lost his home as a result of photographs. The losses this book recalls are poignant yet universal-a son loses his mother; an anthropologist, his culture; a photographer, his youth; a poet, her lover. Among these personal and moving losses and the remarkable photographs that accompany them, Prosser weaves his own meditations on photography, on the interdependence of loss and enlightenment, on the emergence of our technologized society-and the world we have lost in the process.Jay Prosser is lecturer in American literature at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality and coeditor of Palatable Poison: Critical Perspectives on "The Well of Loneliness.".

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2004

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    Zustand: New. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18ill. BIC Classification: AJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 318. . 2004. First edition. Paperback. . . . .

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Routledge, 2008

    0415435676 / 9780415435673

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Columbia University Press, US, 1998

    0231109350 / 9780231109352

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    Paperback. Zustand: New. Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identity inhabit autobiographical bodies. In this stunning first extensive study of transsexual autobiography, Jay Prosser examines the exchanges between body and narrative that constitute the phenomenon of transsexuality. Showing how transsexuality's somatic transitions are spurred and enabled by the formal transitions of narrative, Prosser uncovers a narrative tradition for transsexual bodies. Sex change is a plot--and thus appropriately transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors. In reading the transssexual plot through transsexuals' own recounting, Prosser not only gives us a new and more accurate rendition of transsexuality.His book suggests transsexuality, with its extraordinary conjunctions of body and narrative, as an identity story that transitions across the body/language divide that currently stalls poststucturalist thought. The form and approach of Second Skins works to cross other important and parallel divides. In addition to analyzing transsexual textual accounts, the book includes some 30 photographic portraits of transsexuals--poignant attempts by transsexuals to present themselves unmediated to the world except by the camera. And the author does not shy from exposure himself. Interjecting the personal into his theoretical discussion and close textual work throughout the book, Prosser reads and writes his own body, his purpose in that stylistic crossing to stake out transsexuality--and hence this very book--as his own body's narrative.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Columbia University Press, US, 1998

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    Paperback. Zustand: New. Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identity inhabit autobiographical bodies. In this stunning first extensive study of transsexual autobiography, Jay Prosser examines the exchanges between body and narrative that constitute the phenomenon of transsexuality. Showing how transsexuality's somatic transitions are spurred and enabled by the formal transitions of narrative, Prosser uncovers a narrative tradition for transsexual bodies. Sex change is a plot--and thus appropriately transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors. In reading the transssexual plot through transsexuals' own recounting, Prosser not only gives us a new and more accurate rendition of transsexuality.His book suggests transsexuality, with its extraordinary conjunctions of body and narrative, as an identity story that transitions across the body/language divide that currently stalls poststucturalist thought. The form and approach of Second Skins works to cross other important and parallel divides. In addition to analyzing transsexual textual accounts, the book includes some 30 photographic portraits of transsexuals--poignant attempts by transsexuals to present themselves unmediated to the world except by the camera. And the author does not shy from exposure himself. Interjecting the personal into his theoretical discussion and close textual work throughout the book, Prosser reads and writes his own body, his purpose in that stylistic crossing to stake out transsexuality--and hence this very book--as his own body's narrative.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Columbia University Press, New York, 1998

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    Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and--in flesh and head--to cross the boundary of sex. Telling their story is not merely an act that comes after the fact, it's a force of its own that makes it impossible to forget that stories of identity inhabit autobiographical bodies.In this stunning first extensive study of transsexual autobiography, Jay Prosser examines the exchanges between body and narrative that constitute the phenomenon of transsexuality. Showing how transsexuality's somatic transitions are spurred and enabled by the formal transitions of narrative, Prosser uncovers a narrative tradition for transsexual bodies. Sex change is a plot--and thus appropriately transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors. In reading the transssexual plot through transsexuals' own recounting, Prosser not only gives us a new and more accurate rendition of transsexuality. His book suggests transsexuality, with itsextraordinary conjunctions of body and narrative, as an identity story that transitions across the body/language divide that currently stalls poststucturalist thought.The form and approach of Second Skins works to cross other important and parallel divides. In addition to analyzing transsexual textual accounts, the book includes some 30 photographic portraits of transsexuals--poignant attempts by transsexuals to present themselves unmediated to the world except by the camera. And the author does not shy from exposure himself. Interjecting the personal into his theoretical discussion and close textual work throughout the book, Prosser reads and writes his own body, his purpose in that stylistic crossing to stake out transsexuality--and hence this very book--as his own body's narrative. Examining the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins gubarand-in mind and body-to cross the boundary of sex, Prosser argues that sex change is, at best, a narrative-thus transsexuals make for adept and absorbing authors. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.