@article{854173,
      recid = {854173},
      author = {Andrist, Debra D.,},
      title = {The body, subject & subjected : the representation of  the body itself, illness, injury, treatment & death in  Spain and indigenous and Hispanic American art &  literature /},
      pages = {1 online resource (270 pages)},
      abstract = {"Hominids have always been obsessed with representing  their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric  negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by  stone and ceramic representations of the human figure.  Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and  literature to contemporary social media, the contemporary  term "selfie" was self-generated. The Body, Subject &  Subjected illuminates some "selfies." This collection of  critical essays about the fixation on the human self  addresses a multi-faceted geographic set of cultures - the  Iberian Peninsula to pre-Columbian America and Hispanic  America - analyzing such representations from medical,  literal and metaphorical perspectives over centuries.  Chapter contributions address the representation of the  body itself as subject, in both visual and textual manners,  and illuminate attempts at control of the environment, of  perception, of behavior and of actions, by artists and  authors. Other chapters address the body as subjected to  circumstance, representing the body as affected by factors  such as illness, injury, treatment and death. These myriad  effects on the body are interpreted through the brushes of  painters and the pens of authors for social and/or personal  control purposes. The essays reveal critics' insights when  "selfies" are examined through a focused "lens" over a  breadth of cultures"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/854173},
}