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Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature

Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature

Aisha Damali Lockridge

9781433105753

Peter Lang Publishing Inc


Theatre: technical & background skills; Film & movie: styles & genres; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Communication studies; Gender studies: women

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152 pages

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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.

By:   Aisha Damali Lockridge
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   19
Dimensions:   Width: 230mm,  Spine: 155mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:  

9781433105753


ISBN 10:   1433105756
Series:   African-American Literature and Culture Expanding and Exploding the Boundaries
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   May 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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