Body politics and the fictional double / edited by Debra Walker King.

Other author King, Debra Walker, 1959-
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxiv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
American fiction--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Women and literature--United States. --History. --20th century.
American fiction--Minority authors. --History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
Body image in literature.
Doubles in literature.
Arts, American.

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 -- Performing 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-202) and index.
LCCN 00035046
ISBN0253337798 (alk. paper)
ISBN0253214092 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.B64 B64 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold