Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives

Marking and Remarking
Herausgeber: Watson, Kate; Cox, Katharine

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Produktbeschreibung

Tattoos in crime and detective narratives: Marking and remarking examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c. 1955 to present). The book aids our understanding of the crime and detective genre and the ways in which tattoos act as a mimetic device that marks and remarks these narratives in complex ways. Tattooing is focused on as a bodily narrative, incorporating the critical perspectives of posthumanism, spatiality, postcolonialism, embodiment and gender studies. The importance of the tattoo is explored through analysis of the writings of early genre exponents of detective fiction including Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the contemporary rebirth of the tattoo through the writings of Stieg Larsson, Sarah Hall, Alan Kent, Caryl Férey, Jeffery Deaver, Peter Robinson and China Miéville, amongst others. The volume includes a separate section on children's literature, examining the work of J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket in particular. Sections on film and television focus on Christopher Nolan's Memento, adaptations of the Bounty mutiny, and the television series Supernatural, Dark angel, Criminal minds , CSI: NY, and Law and order. The collection will have a broad appeal, and will be of interest to all literature and media scholars, but in particular those with an interest in crime and detective narratives, and skin studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781526128676
• ISBN-10: 1526128675
• Artikelnr.: 55390019

Autorenporträt

Kate Watson is a Teacher of English and an Independent Scholar Katharine Cox is a Principal Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Katharine Cox and Kate Watson Part I: Psychoanalysis,
patternings, and the medical imagination 1 A knot of bodies: The tattoo as
navel in Louisa May Alcott's 'V.V.: Or, plots and counterplots' - Alexander
N. Howe 2 Making Manhattan: Urban hieroglyphics, patternings and tattoos in
Edgar Allan Poe's 'The tell-tale heart' and Herman Melville's Moby Dick;
Or, the Whale - Spencer Jordan 3 Medical men: Speculations of morality and
spirituality in Arthur Conan Doyle's writings - David Beck Part II:
Practitioners, place, and contemporary identities 4 From naïve artists to
integrated professionals: The portrayal of tattoos in Sarah Hall's The
Electric Michelangelo and Alan Kent's Voodoo Pilchard - Hywel Dix 5
Mis-reading moko: Cross-cultural tattooing in Caryl Férey's crime fiction -
Ellen Carter 6 Transforming tattoos of the girl with the dragon tattoo -
Kerstin Bergman Part III: Urban textualities, humans and other animals 7
The killing floor and crime narratives: Marking women and nonhuman animals
- Kate Watson and Rebekah Humphreys 8 The tattoo wakes: Sentient ink,
curatorship and writing the new weird in China Miéville's Kraken: An
Anatomy - Katharine Cox Part IV: Children's literature: Dark marks, scars,
and secret societies 9 Dark marks, curse scars and corporal punishment:
Crime and the function of bodily marks in the Harry Potter series - Lucy
Andrew 10 'Since the schism': Reading the tattoo in Lemony Snicket's A
Series of Unfortunate Events - Caroline Jones and Katharine Cox Part V:
Film: Adaptation, memory, and constructions of self 11 The ink of the real:
Memory and identity in Christopher Nolan's Memento - Peter Figler 12 The
Bounty mutiny and its adaptations: Tattooing, primitivism, class and
criminality - Matt Oches Part VI: Television: Branding, tech-noir, and fan
culture 13 Hunting for the branded body in Supernatural: Tattoos, the Mark
of Cain and fan culture - Karin Beeler 14 Generic branding: Tattoos,
transgenics, and tech-noir in James Cameron's Dark Angel - Will Slocombe 15
Tattoos, deviance and consumer culture in North American television:
Criminal Minds, CSI: NY and Law and Order - Ruth Hawthorn and John Miller
Index