Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article introduces the term “skinnedness” as a complementary notion to what we commonly refer to as skin. The term allows for a fundamental conceptual discussion that brings together human skin, animal skin, and other types of organic or artificial skin, such as fruit skin or the soft outer layer of a doll. The dermacritical approach developed here explores the unique affordances of skin and skin‐like phenomena, including their “graphordance,” that is, the implicit invitation to write on them. Through a thorough discussion of works by Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, Lester Gaba, and Herta Müller, this paper offers a philosophically and historically informed perspective on the skinnedness of skin, integrating its symptomatic, semantic, and aesthetic dimensions from a comparative literary perspective.
Source: Orbis Litterarum
DOI: 10.1111/oli.12463
Author: Irina Hron
Institution: University of Copenhagen
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,760
OpenAlex ID: W4402888872