Body politics and the fictional double / edited by Debra Walker King.
2000
PS374.B64 B64 2000 (Mapit)
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Title
Body politics and the fictional double / edited by Debra Walker King.
ISBN
0253337798 (alk. paper)
9780253337795 (alk. paper)
0253214092 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780253214096 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780253337795 (alk. paper)
0253214092 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780253214096 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2000.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
PS374.B64 B64 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.509352042
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and index.
Added Author
King, Debra Walker, 1959-
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Table of Contents
Who says an older woman can't/shouldn't dance? / Gloria Wade-Gayles
When body politics of partial identifications collide with multiple identities of real academics: limited understandings of research and truncated collegial interactions / Sue V. Rosser
Body language: corporeal semiotics, literary resistance / Maude Hines
Writing in red ink / Debra Walker King
Myths and monsters: the female body as the site for political agendas / S. Yumiko Hulvey
Agency and ambivalence: a reading of works by Coco Fusco / Caroline Vercoe
Perfoming bodies, performing culture: an interview with Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante / Rosemary Weatherston
Women singing, women gesturing: music videos / Maureen Turim
Bombshell / Stephanie A. Smith
Afterword: the unbroken circle of assumptions / Trudier Harris.
When body politics of partial identifications collide with multiple identities of real academics: limited understandings of research and truncated collegial interactions / Sue V. Rosser
Body language: corporeal semiotics, literary resistance / Maude Hines
Writing in red ink / Debra Walker King
Myths and monsters: the female body as the site for political agendas / S. Yumiko Hulvey
Agency and ambivalence: a reading of works by Coco Fusco / Caroline Vercoe
Perfoming bodies, performing culture: an interview with Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante / Rosemary Weatherston
Women singing, women gesturing: music videos / Maureen Turim
Bombshell / Stephanie A. Smith
Afterword: the unbroken circle of assumptions / Trudier Harris.