TY  - BOOK
N2  - This book focuses on the challenges women face when their externally defined identities and representations as bodies - their body fictions - speak louder than what they know to be their lived experience. As objects of interpretation, "female bodies" in search of health care, legal assistance, professional respect, identity confirmation, and financial security must first confront the fictionalized doubles. This volume includes reflections on women's day to day lives, as well as the cultural production (literature, MTV, film etc.) that give body fictions their powerful influence. By exploring how these fictions are manipulated politically, expressively and communally, contributors offer reinterpretations that challenge the fictional double while theorizing the discursive and performative forms that it takes.
AB  - This book focuses on the challenges women face when their externally defined identities and representations as bodies - their body fictions - speak louder than what they know to be their lived experience. As objects of interpretation, "female bodies" in search of health care, legal assistance, professional respect, identity confirmation, and financial security must first confront the fictionalized doubles. This volume includes reflections on women's day to day lives, as well as the cultural production (literature, MTV, film etc.) that give body fictions their powerful influence. By exploring how these fictions are manipulated politically, expressively and communally, contributors offer reinterpretations that challenge the fictional double while theorizing the discursive and performative forms that it takes.
T1  - Body politics and the fictional double /
DA  - ©2000.
CY  - Bloomington :
AU  - King, Debra Walker,
CN  - PS374.B64
CN  - PS374.B64
PB  - Indiana University Press,
PP  - Bloomington :
PY  - ©2000.
ID  - 1374266
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Human body in literature.
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - American fiction
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Body image in literature.
KW  - Doubles in literature.
KW  - Arts, American.
KW  - American fiction.
KW  - American fiction
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Arts, American.
KW  - Body image in literature.
KW  - Doubles in literature.
KW  - Human body in literature.
KW  - Women and literature.
KW  - Vrouwelijk lichaam.
KW  - Letterkunde.
KW  - Femmes écrivains américaines.
KW  - Roman américain
KW  - Frauenliteratur.
KW  - Körper.
KW  - Kultur.
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung.
SN  - 0253337798
SN  - 9780253337795
SN  - 0253214092
SN  - 9780253214096
TI  - Body politics and the fictional double /
ER  -