Tipping on a Tightrope; Divas in African American Literature by Lockridge, Aisha Damali

Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781433105753)

Vendor: Carlyle V. Thompson
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Format: Hardcover
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Tipping on a Tightrope; Divas in African American Literature by Lockridge, Aisha Damali

Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature

$111.65
Tipping on a Tightrope; Divas in African American Literature by Lockridge, Aisha Damali

Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature

$111.65
Format: Hardcover
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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 Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter 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, Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature uses present popular culture incarnations of the Diva to detail her long relationship with Black American literary culture.

Author: Carlyle V. Thompson, Aisha Damali Lockridge
ISBN-10: 1433105756
ISBN-13: 9781433105753
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2012
Pages: 142
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
By Carlyle V. Thompson
By Carlyle V. Thompson
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Aisha Damali Lockridge is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Black Studies Minor at Allegheny College. She earned her PhD from Stony Brook University where she was a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow. Her teaching interests include African American literature, Caribbean literature, and Diva Studies.

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