Such codes may be transgressed as a way of 'undoing' or 'shifting' these attachments. This shifting is, perhaps, more complicated than it may at first seem. Especially where entrenched stereotypes are involved. Marbuk, by contrast, represents the life of the 'primitive' from which she has 'escaped' - a world of sensuality and passion. The reading for this week by bell hooks continues this concern with racialised images.
Hooks points to the layers of meaning images of black women carry.
Hooks discusses 'black woman' as erotic icon, as spectacle in anthropology and as 'body parts' in medical biology. She points to the way in which the body is written and writes itself as erotic body through movement and dance, rhythm, lyrics, and film scripts. Please turn to reading 14. Writing on the Body . The performance to excess of stereotypes and stereotypical behaviours has been deployed as a strategy of attention, reversal and destabilisation by pop stars, transexuals, film directors, feminist writers, writers on queer theory and poststructuralists.