<DIV><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction nor simple biography, <u>Josephine Baker in Art and Life</u> presents a critical cultural study of the life and art of the Franco-American performer whose appearances as the savage dancer Fatou shocked the world.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Although the study remains firmly anchored in Josephine Baker's life and times, presenting and challenging carefully researched biographical facts, it also offers in-depth analyses of the images that she constructed and advanced. Bennetta Jules-Rosette explores Baker's far-ranging and dynamic career from a sociological and cultural perspective, using the tools of sociosemiotics to excavate the narratives, images, and representations that trace the story of her life and fit together as a cultural production.</p></DIV>