Andrew HewittSocial Choreography
Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement
Andrew Hewitt is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Political Inversions: Homosexuality, Fascism, and the Modernist Imaginary and Fascist Modernism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant-Garde.
Introduction: Social Choreography and the Aesthetic Continuum 1
1. The Body of Marsyas: Aesthetic Socialism and the Physiology of the
Sublime 37
2. Stumbling and Legibility: Gesture and the Dialectic of Tact 78
3. "America Makes Me Sick!": Nationalism, Race, Gender, and Hysteria 117
4. The Scandalous Male Icon: Nijinsky and the Queering of Symbolist
Aesthetics 156
5. From Women to Girl: Mass Culture and Gender Panic 177
Notes 213
Index 249
