Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Princeton University. She is also affiliated with the University's Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Committee on Film Studies. Her most recent book is Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface (OUP 2011).

• Introduction Chapter 1: Borders and EmbroideryChapter 2: Gleaming ThingsChapter 3: Blue WillowChapter 4: Edible PetsChapter 5: DollsCoda: Chokecherry CreditsNotesIndex

Cheng's scholarship affectivizes theoretical approaches to subjectivity, to objectivity, and to their relation, by showing how...the ornaments ...of modernity are not additions to (adornment on) pre-existing subjects and objects, but instead bring these elements into ontological and phenomenological tangibility.

Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Princeton University. She is also affiliated with the University's Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Committee on Film Studies. Her most recent book is Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface (OUP 2011).

• Introduction Chapter 1: Borders and EmbroideryChapter 2: Gleaming ThingsChapter 3: Blue WillowChapter 4: Edible PetsChapter 5: DollsCoda: Chokecherry CreditsNotesIndex

Cheng's scholarship affectivizes theoretical approaches to subjectivity, to objectivity, and to their relation, by showing how...the ornaments ...of modernity are not additions to (adornment on) pre-existing subjects and objects, but instead bring these elements into ontological and phenomenological tangibility.

Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Princeton University. She is also affiliated with the University's Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Committee on Film Studies. Her most recent book is Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface (OUP 2011).

• Introduction Chapter 1: Borders and EmbroideryChapter 2: Gleaming ThingsChapter 3: Blue WillowChapter 4: Edible PetsChapter 5: DollsCoda: Chokecherry CreditsNotesIndex

Cheng's scholarship affectivizes theoretical approaches to subjectivity, to objectivity, and to their relation, by showing how...the ornaments ...of modernity are not additions to (adornment on) pre-existing subjects and objects, but instead bring these elements into ontological and phenomenological tangibility.