Presentation Year

2019

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Helen M BerryEnglishUndergraduate Student

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American tattoos are no longer considered counter-culture. Dominant ideologies that once reserved tattoos for bikers, criminals, and sailors now consider tattoos as highly popularized and commonplace. This prospectus will not look at the history of tattooing so much as it will explore the acts of getting, maintaining, and displaying tattoos as rhetoric. I explore the relationship between modern body art and rhetoric and argue that tattoos are persuasive and contextually meaningful. Tattoos function as a personal narrative and a social artifact fixed in time.

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Yes

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