CiNii Books - The bodies that were not ours, and other writings

Interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco is one of North America's leading interpreters of intercultural theory and practice. This volume gathers together her finest writings since 1995 and includes critical essays by Jean Fisher and Caroline Vercoe that interpret her work. Engaging and provocative, these essays, interviews, performance scripts and fotonovelas take readers on a tour of our current multicultural landscape. Fusco explores such issues as sex tourism in Cuba as a barometer of the island's entry into the global economy, Frantz Fanon's theorization of metropolitan blackness, and artistic and net activist responses to the effects of free trade on the Mexican populace. She interviews such postcolonial personnae as Isaac Julien, Hilton Als and Tracey Moffatt. Approaching the dynamics of cultural fusion from many angles, Fusco's satires, commentaries, and sociological inquiries collapse boundaries, and form a sustained meditation on how the forces of globalization impact upon the making of art.

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Section One Borne in Captivity
Chapter 1 The Bodies That Were Not Ours 1996
Chapter 2 Mexarcane International
Chapter 3 Better Yet When Dead
Chapter 4 The Man and the Myth
Chapter 5 Captain Shit and other Allegories of Black Stardom
Chapter 6 Wreaking Havoc on the Signified
Chapter 7 My Kind of Conversation
Chapter 8 The Unbearable Weightiness of Beings
Chapter 9 Votos (Vows)
Section Two Other Perspectives
Chapter 10 Paquita y Chata Se Arrebatan
Chapter 11 A pilot for a Chicano soap opera
Section Three Suspended in Transit
Chapter 12 Blacks in the Metropolis
Chapter 13 Rights of Passage
Chapter 14 Stuff
Chapter 15 BAD GRRL BRAVADO
Chapter 16 Hustling for Dollars
Chapter 17 Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Chapter 18 El Ultimo Deseo (The Last Wish)
Chapter 19 El Evento Suspendido (The Postponed Event)
Chapter 20 Mamas, Sistahs and Auntie Men
Chapter 21 Sudaca Enterprises
Chapter 22 Modernity Deferred
Chapter 23 At Your Service
Chapter 24 The Incredible Disappearing Woman
Section Four Other Perspectives
Chapter 25 Witness for the Prosecution, Jean Fisher
Chapter 26 Agency and Ambivalence

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