Overview

In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances. Fenske suggests working within dominant discourse to represent and subvert oppressive gender and class evaluations.

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<p>&#8220;Unique in its focused study of the image-object of tattoos, Tattoos in American Visual Culture masterfully analyzes a range of &#8216;texts&#8217;--from flash books to parlor spaces to human bodies--in order to advance an original and provocative argument about the &#8216;performance of performativity.&#8217; As an interdisciplinary meeting of ethnography, textual/rhetorical studies, performance studies, and visual culture, Fenske's account of the tattoo will not only appeal to scholars and students interested in the performance of everyday life, but also to anyone who has suffered--or dreamed of suffering--under the ink gun.-- Joshua Gunn, University of Texas at Austin

Unique in its focused study of the image-object of tattoos, Tattoos in American Visual Culture masterfully analyzes a range of 'texts'--from flash books to parlor spaces to human bodies--in order to advance an original and provocative argument about the 'performance of performativity.' As an interdisciplinary meeting of ethnography, textual/rhetorical studies, performance studies, and visual culture, Fenske's account of the tattoo will not only appeal to scholars and students interested in the performance of everyday life, but also to anyone who has suffered--or dreamed of suffering--under the ink gun.-- Joshua Gunn, University of Texas at Austin

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MINDY FENSKE is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina, USA.

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