Tipping on a Tightrope
Divas in African American Literature
Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)
When Black runway models began throwing phones and VH1’s «Divas Live» riveted viewers, a new paradigm for Black women had fully evolved in the form of the Black Diva. Tracing the trajectory of the Diva figure from the Italian castrati to Ntozake Shange’s suggests a way around staid and fixed stereotypes about Black womanhood. The Black Diva performs her demands as a quintessential act of survival in a hostile and racist world; she is both a product of and a mark against the male gaze, Black and white. Ultimately, uses present popular culture incarnations of the Diva to detail her long relationship with Black American literary culture.weiterlesen
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