Body Politics and the Fictional Double

CONTENTS

introduction v C O N T E N T S debra walker king introduction: body fictions vii GLORIA WADE-GAYLES [1] Who Says an Older Woman Can’t/Shouldn’t Dance? 1 SUE V. ROSSER [2] When Body Politics of Partial Identifications Collide with Multiple Identities of Real Academics: Limited Understandings of Research and Truncated Collegial Interactions 23 MAUDE HINES [3] Body Language: Corporeal Semiotics, Literary Resistance 38 DEBRA WALKER KING [4] Writing in Red Ink 56 S. YUMIKO HULVEY [5] Myths and Monsters: The Female Body as the Site for Political Agendas 71 CAROLINE VERCOE [6] Agency and Ambivalence: A Reading of Works by Coco Fusco 89 ROSEMARY WEATHERSTON [7] Performing Bodies, Performing Culture: An Interview with Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante 105 MAUREEN TURIM [8] Women Singing, Women Gesturing: Music Videos 131 STEPHANIE A. SMITH [9] Bombshell 152 TRUDIER HARRIS Afterword: The Unbroken Circle of Assumptions 178 notes 187 selected bibliography 197 contributors 203 index 207 introduction vi contents ...