{"product_id":"9780253337795-body-politics-and-the-fictional-dou","title":"Body Politics and the Fictional Double","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn contemporary years, questions concerning \"the body\" and its place in postmodern discourses have taken center stage in academic disciplines. This book joins these discussions by focusing on the challenges women face when their externally defined identities speak louder than what they know to be their lived experience or true selves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRacialized, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53528075174262,"sku":"9780253337795","price":26.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39538800_392ff1ab-caee-459c-a6dc-a92691ec6b61.jpg?v=1769026984","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780253337795-body-politics-and-the-fictional-dou","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}