Body Parts

Body Parts
ISBN-10
0934223971
ISBN-13
9780934223973
Series
Body Parts
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
164
Language
English
Published
2008
Publisher
Associated University Presse
Author
Clara Elizabeth Orban

Description

Body Ýin¨ Parts: Bodies and Identity in Sade and Guibert explores the link between Herve Guibert, one of France's most provocative contemporary writers who died of AIDS in 1991, and the Marquis de Sade, the most notorious Enlightenment libertine. In both authors bodies lose their corporeality. They are denied a history through shifting biographies and autobiographies, then lose their physical reality in time. Bodies are objectified and mechanized before being cut up or imprisoned as a way to dehumanize them. Ultimately they become ghosts who haunt the texts.

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