‘Thirty years of the high life have not taken their toll on Jones’ perfect hindquarters, which she shakes and wiggles in the faces of the photographers’.
Kitty Empire 22/06/08 The Observer
Thirty years of such a high life may not have taken their toll on Grace Jones’ posterior but something is ‘rotten’ in the use of the term ‘hindquarters’. It is what is at stake in such language that is the concern of this paper, which maps out broadcast press and blog discourses surrounding Jones’ recent re-emergence onto the British popular music scene to establish how she becomes framed both through the vectors of race and age in ways that highlight her as an awesome and ‘awe’ful artefact
