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 true                  selves.Racialized, gendered, or homophobic body fictions                  disfigure individuals by placing them beneath a veil of invisibility and by                  political, emotional, or spiritual suffocation. As objects of interpretation,                  "female bodies" in search of health care, legal assistance, professional respect,                  identity confirmation, and financial security must first confront their                  fictionalized doubles in a collision that, in many cases, ends in disappointment,                  distress, and even suicide. The contributors reflect on women's                  day-to-day lives and the cultural productions (literature, MTV, film, etc.) that                  give body fictions their power and influence. By exploring how these fictions are                  manipulated politically, expressively, and communally, they offer reinterpretations                  that challenge the fictional double while theorizing the discursive and performative                  forms it takes.Contributors include Trudier Harris, Maude Hines,                  S. Yumiko Hulvey, Debra Walker King, Sue V. Rosser, Stephanie A. Smith, Maureen                  Turim, Caroline Vercoe, Gloria Wade-Gayles, and Rosemary                  Weatherston.Debra Walker King, Associate Professor of English at                  the University of Florida, Gainesville, is author of Deep Talk: Reading African                  American Literary Names. She has published articles and reviews in Names: the                  Journal of the American Name Society; Philosophy and Rhetoric; and African American                  Review. ContentsIntroduction: Body Fictions, Debra Walker KingWho                  Says an Older Woman Can't/Shouldn't Dance?, Gloria Wade-GaylesWhen Body Politics of                  Partial Identifications Collide with Multiple Identities of Real Academics: Limited                  Understandings of Research and Truncated Collegial Interactions, Sue V. RosserBody                  Language: Corporeal Semiotics, Literary Resistance, Maude HinesWriting in Red Ink,                  Debra Walker KingMyths and Monsters: The Female Body as the Site for Political                  Agendas, S. Yumiko HulveyAgency and Ambivalence: A Reading of Works by Coco Fusco,                  Caroline VercoePerforming Bodies, Performing Culture: An interview with Coco Fusco                  and Nao Bustamante, Rosemary WeatherstonWomen Singing, Women Gesturing: The Gendered                  and Racially-Coded Body of Music Video, Maureen TurimBombshell, Stephanie A.                  SmithAfterword: The Unbroken Circle of Assumptions, Trudier Harris

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