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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due
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Braunberger, Christine C. "Stories in the Flesh: Reading Cultural Narratives of Tattooing in America," American Studies Program, Purdue University, April 1999.
Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, this work analyzes literary, theoretical, anthropological, and popular texts in conjunction with field research in order to “read” American cultural narratives surrounding tattoo. My thesis is that the tattooed body is both an object and a subject actively writing to, from, and in collaboration with its culture around a host of body—related issues, including cultural definitions of gender, ethnicity, and class; interpolation of citizens and criminals; going to war; immigrant nostalgia and community building; and desires for artistic expression. By engaging theories of subjectivity, identification, transgression, performance, and the body, this work contributes to contemporary body-based debates.
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