Composing Media Composing Embodiment

Grounding this collection of essays are the assumptions that the body is one's primary medium, and that tensions exist between the sense of embodiment and its shaping by a culture. Arola (English, Washington State U.) and Wyosocki (writing, visual and digital rhetorics, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) frame 14 essays through feminist, queer, phenomenological, and other theoretical perspectives that explore topics including embodied interfaces with computers, e.g., as in online game avatars, and pow wow regalia as an embodied act for negotiating mixed Indian/white identity. Includes activities and illustrations. Annotation 2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)