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Body politics and the fictional double.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Katie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and cri.
- Arts, American.
- Body image in literature.
- Body, Human, in literature.
- Doubles in literature.
- History.
- History and criticism.
- Minority authors.
- Women and literature.
- Women authors.
- American fiction--History and criticism--Women authors--20th century--United States.
- Human body in literature--History--20th century.
- Human body in literature.
- Women and literature--History and criticism--Minority authors.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- Local Subjects:
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and cri.
- Arts, American.
- Body image in literature.
- Body, Human, in literature.
- Doubles in literature.
- History.
- History and criticism.
- Minority authors.
- Women and literature.
- Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Body Politics and the Fictional DoubleEdited by Debra Walker KingExamines the disjunction between women's appearance and reality.In recent years, questions concerning ""the body"" and its place in postmodern discourses have taken center stage in academic disciplines. Body Politics joins these discussions by focusing 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Body Fictions GLORIA WADE-GAYLES; [1] Who Says an Older Woman Can't/Shouldn't Dance? GLORIA WADE-GAYLES; [2] When Body Politics of Partial Identifica-tions Collide with Multiple Identities of Real Academics: Limited SUE V. ROSSER; [3] Body Language: Corporeal Semiotics, Literary Resistance MAUDE HINES; [4] Writing in Red Ink DEBRA WALKER KING; [5] Myths and Monsters: The Female Body as the Site for Political Agendas S. YUMIKO HULVEY; [6] Agency and Ambivalence: A Reading of Works by Coco Fusco CAROLINE VERCOE
- [7] Performing Bodies, Performing Culture: An Interview with Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante ROSEMARY WEATHERSTON[8] Women Singing, Women Gesturing: Music Videos MAUREEN TURIM; [9] Bombshell STEPHANIE A. SMITH; Afterword: The Unbroken Circle of Assumptions TRUDIER HARRIS; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253108326
- 0253108322
- OCLC:
- 475867518
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