The essays in The Flesh Made Text Made Flesh explore the complexities of modern and postmodern
embodiment by drawing attention to a marked tendency in contemporary theory and cultural
practice to return to flesh and redefine its limits meanings and potentialities. Engaging
with issues as diverse as technologized performance cosmetic surgery and lifestyle TV the
essays in this collection raise crucial questions and open up new horizons for further research
in current debates surrounding enfleshment. The cross-disciplinarity of this book which can be
used in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching will attract the attention of scholars from a
diversity of fields such as literature sociology popular culture art theater and film.
