Body Politics and the Fictional Double

Index

index 207 index Italicized page numbers refer to illustrations. academic discourse, xii, 23–37, 52–55 Ackerman, Chantal, 145 Adams, John, 151 Adorno, Theodor, 166, 171 After the Fall (Miller), 170–74, 196nn55,60,61 “Agency and Ambivalence” (Vercoe), xiii aging, xii, 1–22, 180 Alchemy of Race and Rights, The (Williams), 39–40 alliance building, viii–ix, 185 ambivalence, 92–94 America, the Beautiful (Bustamante), 105–106, 108, 117–18 amnesia, historical, 42 Arnold, Eve, 162–63, 193n6 art critics, 124–25 assembly line production, 166 atomic bomb, 162, 163, 170–71, 173, 194n31 authenticity, x, 168–69 autobiography, 170–71 Avedon, Richard, 194n27 Avgikos, Jan, 92 Baal, David, 106 Bacall, Lauren, 193n5 Baker, Ella Jo, 13 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 103 Balasz, Bela, 136 Baldwin, James, 170 Ballet Folklorico, 128 Bambara, Toni Cade, 181, 182 Barrett, Michèlle, 158–59, 167 Barthes, Roland, 133 Bataille, Sylvie, 136–37, 137 Baty, S. Paige, 177 Bazin, André, 136 Beaton, Cecil, 161–62, 193n6 Beautiful and the Damned, The (Fitzgerald), 195n35 Beauvoir, Simone de, 43–44 Being and Nothingness (Sartre), 188n6 Beloved (Morrison), 61–65 index 208 Benetton store, 39–40, 42, 49 Benjamin, Walter, 121 Berlin Wall, 113, 167 Bersani, Leo, 166 Bessie, Alvah, 194n28 Better Yet When Dead (Fusco), 96–97, 106, 116 Bhabha, Homi, 90, 94–95, 99 Black History Month, 128 Black No More (Schuyler), 184 black women: aging and, 1–22; corporeal semiotics and, 38–55; stereotyping of, 178–80; writing and, 20–21, 56–70 blondes, 157, 159–60, 165, 195n44 bodies as texts, xii, 49–52, 189n15 body fictions, vii–xiv “Body Language” (Hines), xi bombshell, 152–77, 194n31 “Bombshell” (Smith), xi, xiv Bordo, Susan, 160 Brawley, Tawana, 189n16 Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote), 196n56 Brecht, Bertolt, 98 Bresson, Robert, 135 Bridges of Madison County, The, 10 Brown, Adele, 143 Brunius, Jacques, 136–37 burritos, 101–102, 105, 107, 120 Bustamante, Nao, xi, xiii, 98–103, 105–106, 180, 183; interview with, 107–30 Butler, Octavia, 57 Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The, 145 Calderón, Miguel, 106 “Candle in the Wind” (John and Taupin), 164, 195n41 “Candlefish” (O _ ba), 71 canon, literary, 52–55 capitalist political economy, 168, 176 Capote, Truman, 170, 196n56 Carby, Hazel, 53 Cartesian duality, 157, 163 Catholicism, Latin, 96–97, 115 Chain South, The (Bustamante and Calderón), 106 Charles, Ray, 11 Chekhov, Michael, 162 Chion, Michel, 138 “Choreography” (Derrida), 133 cinema, early, 134–38 circumcision, female, 41, 50 Cixous, Hélène, xii, 57, 58–59, 61–63, 65, 69 Clark, Septima, 13 Clinton, William Jefferson, 152–53, 155, 193n4 Codes of Conduct (Holloway), 56 collaboration in performance art, 108–109 Collins, Patricia Hill, 168 colonialism, xiii, 90–91, 93–94, 99; Indig/urrito and, 101–102, 105, 107, 120 Colored Mist (Enchi), 71 “Come to My Window” (Etheridge), 143, 144–45 “Coming Apart” (Walker), 59–60 common sense, 152–59, 164–65, 167– 70, 176–77, 193n2 conceptual violation, ix–x container as interiority metaphor, 46– 50, 189n14 containment, colonial, 90, 96–97 corporeal semiotics, 38–55 Couple in the Cage, The: A Guatinaui Odyssey (Fusco), 93, 106 Crane, Steven, 165, 195n45 Crazy Page, A (Kinoshita), 145 creation myths, Japanese, 72–88, 190n2 creative nonfiction, 170–71, 196n56 Crypt 33, 165 Cultural Capital (Guillory), 54 cultural consumption, 96, 100–104, 110–14 cultural funding agencies, 107, 127–29 cultural identity, 41, 51, 189n15 “Cultural Materialism, Othello, and the Politics of Plausibility” (Sinfield), 158, 193n15 cultural nationalism, 126–27, 129 cultural tourism, 110–14 Culture Clash, 116 Cuxtamali, 101, 192n17 index 209 dancing, xii, xiv, 12–13, 17–18, 22 Dandridge, Dorothy, 159 Dangerous Curves (Bustamante), 105 Darnoux, Georges, 136–37 Davis, Sammy, Jr., 177 Day in the Country, A (Renoir), 136–38, 137 de la Cruz, Sor Juana Ines, 116 “dead white men,” 52–54 Dean, Jimmy, 146 Delluc, Louis, 136 Derrida, Jacques, 133, 174–75 Des’ree, 150, 151 Dietrich, Marlene, 146 difference, 52–53, 94 differend, 166–69 Differend, The (Lyotard), 166–69 dildos, 101–102, 105, 107, 120 DiMaggio, Joe, 162 Dion, Celine, 138–41, 139 Donnell, Xavier, 61, 65 Dyer, Richard, 162, 196n64 Eastwood, Clint, 10 Edmonds, Kenny, 147, 148 Einstein, Albert, 194n31 Eloquent Gestures (Pearson), 135 Enchi Fumiko, 71, 189–90n1, 191n18 encounter performances, 91–92, 98 English Is Broken Here (Fusco), 191n2 erasure: of black women, 178–80; of mixed-race bodies, 42 essentialist readings: of colonialism, 94; corporeal semiotics in...