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Excess 9 Introduction 15 Bessie Smith: Upsetting the American Appetite 37 Hysterical Freedom: Surrealist Dance and Helene Vanel’s Faulty Functions 63 Guiest-Starring Excess: Zsa Zsa Gabor and the Domestic Sitcom 79 “¡La Lupe!”: Performing Race, Gender, Nation, and Excess 99 Media Star and Monster: Spectacle and the “Imeldific” 119 Queening It: Women’s Taste for Jewelry Excesses in post-War Britain 147 Visceral Excess: Cosmimesis in the Work of Orlan 161 Dred’s Drag Kinging of Race, Sex, and Queering the American Racial machine-desirante 189 Infertile Me: The Public Performance of Fertility Treatments in Internet Weblogs 207 Excessive Performances of the Same: Beauty as the Beast of Reality TV 231 Situating Fat Suits: Blackface, Drag, and the Politics of Performance 243 The Seen, the Scene and the Obscene: Commodity Fetishism and Corporeal Ghosting 263 List of Contributors |