Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma (1993)1
Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma (1993)1
This chapter examines two sites within the cultures of trauma: “shaved heads” and “marked bodies.” “Shaved heads” are a representation pertaining both to an image and to a style, resulting from a wide variety of social and political experiences outside of the context of the visual arts. “Marked bodies” are a representation that refers to the performative paradigm that developed within society and the visual arts, an aesthetic practice that is rooted deeply in cultures of trauma in accordance with larger political frames of destruction and violence. The chapter considers examples of shaved heads in history that inhabit the visual memory of culture, a memory of the history of war, domination, and colonization across whose pages bodies reach back to the Old and New Testaments and forward to the white power of skinheads.
Keywords: cultures of trauma, shaved heads, marked bodies, visual arts, trauma, destruction, violence, visual memory, culture, skinheads
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