Автор: Alexander Doty Название: Fabulous! Divas, Part 1 ISBN: 0822366789 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822366782 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 10290.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
From Josephine Baker to Judy Garland to Elton John, the figure of the diva occupies a fascinating place in American culture. This special issue of Camera Obscura explores the impact of divas (and divos) in film and popular culture and considers their fraught psychic and social positioning. Contributors examine how divas are frequently portrayed as both victims and villains and how they can be figures of worship as well as of ridicule for their attempts to confront, transcend, or carve a new space within the patriarchal dominant culture. This collection looks at how divas cause “category trouble” by refusing to stay in their proper culturally assigned roles—gender, race, and class—in order to live life on their own terms, making them important figures for other groups at the margins of the dominant culture.
The contributors to Fabulous! Divas I (the first in a two-part series) address how Baker’s dual image as sexualized black woman and multicultural mother has been used to question and invert stereotypes, how the diva witches in the Broadway musical Wicked have developed a cult following among adolescent girls, and how fans mix irony and sincerity in their admiration of daytime soap divas. One contributor explores the cultural work of camp, while another considers hair as a fetish item for diva devotees. Among the diva appreciations are a look at the life of the cross-dressing black disco diva Sylvester, a reading of Garland as a lesbian diva par excellence, an examination of Courtney Love as a martyr diva, and a consideration of how loving Julie Andrews can make people queer.
Contributors. Alexander Doty, Brett Farmer, Joshua Gamson, Chuck Jackson, Ramon Lobato, Edward R. O’Neill, Ann Pellegrini, Julie Levine Russo, Nick Salvato, Jeanne Scheper, Edward Baron Turk, Stacy Wolf
Название: Funeral Diva ISBN: 0872868117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780872868113 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 13720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The New York Times recommends Barack Obama and Pamela Sneed's memoirs
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art.
"Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry, and the book has the feeling of live performance. . . . Its strength is in its abundance, its desire for language to stir body as well as mind."--Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Book Review
"She is a writer for the future, in that she defies genre."--Hilton Als
"This notable achievement, traveling from youth to adulthood, is a harrowing account of how Sneed transforms violence and pain into an artist's life."--Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric
"There's an eerie sense of timeliness to this book, which features prose and poetry by the writer and teacher Pamela Sneed and is largely -- though not entirely -- about mourning Black gay men killed too soon by a deadly virus."--Tomi Obaro, Buzzfeed
"OH MY GOODNESS, it was amazing. I was in tears by the end. What starts off as beautiful memoir evolves into incredibly moving poetry, painful and sweet and lovely."--Marie Cloutier, Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY
"Balancing and mixing, with rhyme and reason, love and anger, good and bad, memory and the created present, all to tell the story of a life, a memoir unrestrained, devoid of artificial forms. Honest. Free."--Anjanette Delgado, New York Journal of Books
In this collection of personal essays and poetry, acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s. Funeral Diva captures the impact of AIDS on Black Queer life, and highlights the enduring bonds between the living, the dying, and the dead. Sneed's poems not only converse with lovers past and present, but also with her literary forebears--like James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde--whose aesthetic and thematic investments she renews for a contemporary American landscape.
Offering critical focus on matters from police brutality to LGBTQ+ rights, Funeral Diva confronts today's most pressing issues with acerbic wit and audacity. The collection closes with Sneed's reflections on the two pandemics of her time, AIDS and COVID-19, and the disproportionate impact of each on African American communities.
"Riveting, personal, open-hearted, risky and wise."--Sarah Schulman, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse
" . . . a tour de force about the collision between a coalescing 1980s 'Black lesbian and gay literary and poetic movement' in New York and the onslaught of AIDS."--Donna Seaman, Booklist
"Pamela Sneed's Funeral Diva is deft, defiant, and devastating."--Tommy Pico, author of Feed
"Funeral Diva is urgent and necessary reading to live by. This is writing at its finest. Keep this book close to your heart and soul."--Karen Finley, author of Shock Treatment
"Reminiscent of Audre Lorde's Zami, Pamela Sneed's memoir is, in itself, a healing balm, affirming in its truths and honesty. I cannot remember ever reading a book that illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on our community more poignantly than Funeral Diva."--Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Patsy
"Pamela Sneed takes enormous risks in this book. She tells the truth with fierce concentration and an abiding sense of purpose."--Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
Автор: Kimberly Nichele Brown Название: Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women`s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text ISBN: 025322246X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253222466 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 22870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Kimberly Nichele Brown examines how African American women since the 1970s have found ways to move beyond the "double consciousness" of the colonized text to develop a healthy subjectivity that attempts to disassociate black subjectivity from its connection to white culture. Brown traces the emergence of this new consciousness from its roots in the Black Aesthetic Movement through important milestones such as the anthology The Black Woman and Essence magazine to the writings of Angela Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, and Jayne Cortez.
Are you smart and accomplished but find yourself asking if you have settled for the lesser choice? Do you find yourself questioning if this is good enough for me? Are you seeking answers to why you are hesitant to lead?
DIVA DECISIONS: How to Get from SMART to INTELLIGENT by Claiming Your POWER of CHOICE is written for smart, modern career women and workforce-ready girls of all ages who want confidence and the skills to make more intelligent choices. Using life and leadership coaching methods, tools and resources, you are challenged to think, question and claim your broader intellect and understanding that goes beyond knowing-it-all to start the process towards achieving-it-all.
After reading this book, you will have
Resources to design the Lifespace you desire
Tools to map and actualize your own success
Greater awareness to create safe and empowering relationships
A Power Mindset to effectively lead yourself and others
Confidence to make more intelligent decisions
DIVA DECISIONS is important to read now to help close the distance to achieving gender equity. You have in your hand the tools and resources to recognize and reframe powerful choices that affect your ability to live, lead, and succeed. DIVA DECISIONS aims to get you to intelligent.
Автор: Strom Robert Название: Virginia O`Brien: Mgm`s Deadpan Diva (Hardback) ISBN: 1629332208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781629332208 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 32280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Gray Dr Julie Ann Название: Diva Five Alive: Letters to My Sisters ISBN: 1732657009 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732657007 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Diva Five Alive is the story of five sisters who triumphed over tremendous adversity. It is the story of the Gibert and McBride girls: Marilyn, Brenda, Carolyn, Julie, and Evette, women whose lives are tainted by dysfunction, domestic violence, substance abuse and mental illness.
After years of struggle and perseverance, they learn the secrets of resilience. Their story will make you laugh and cry. You will root for the heroines all the way through. Diva Five Alive will inspire you, as you read about the sister's struggles, victories, pains, hurts, losses, and triumphs.
This book was written to touch the lives of thousands of people, who may have experienced the same kind of pain, who can gain strength through the example of five women who were able to overcome great odds to achieve lives of meaning and purpose. Diva Five Alive is a story of triumph, of five women who learned to "claim their joy."
Автор: Benjamin Halligan, Kirsty Fairclough, Nicole Hodges Persley, Shara Rambarran Название: Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop ISBN: 1501368257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501368257 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The diva – a central figure in the landscape of contemporary popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting, paparazzi-stalked. And yet the diva is at the epicentre of creative endeavours that resonate with contemporary feminist ideas, kick back against diminished social expectations, boldly call-out casual sexism and industry misogyny and, in terms of hip-hop, explores intersectional oppressions and unapologetically celebrates non-white cultural heritages. Diva beats and grooves echo across culture and politics in the West: from the borough to the White House, from arena concerts to nightclubs, from social media to social activism, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter.Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop addresses the diva phenomenon and its origins: its identity politics and LGBTQ+ components; its creativity and interventions in areas of popular culture (music, and beyond); its saints and sinners and controversies old and new; and its oppositions to, and recuperations by, the establishment; and its shifts from third to fourth waves of feminism. This co-edited collection brings together an international array of writers – from new voices to established names. The collection scopes the rise to power of the diva (looking to Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton, Grace Jones, and Aaliyah), then turns to contemporary diva figures and their work (with Beyonce, Amuro Namie, Janelle Monae, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, and Nicki Minaj), and concludes by considering the presence of the diva in wider cultures, in terms of gallery curation, theatre productions, and stand-up comedy.
Автор: Madrid Mike Название: Divas, Dames & Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics ISBN: 1935259237 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781935259237 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A fully illustrated and thrilling look back at the lost supergirls of Golden Age comics
Название: Midnight in cairo - the divas of egypt`s roaring `20s ISBN: 1324021934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781324021933 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 9490.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first full-scale discussion of English Phonology since Chomsky and Halle`s The Sound Pattern of English, this is a thorough and engaging exploration of the major phonological phenomena of English, including stress, other prosodic phenomena and segmental alternations and their interaction, with emphasis on description in terms of ordered rules.
Автор: Mia Mask Название: Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film ISBN: 0252076192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252076190 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 25150.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television.
Mask examines the function of these stars in seminal yet underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House and her subsequent blaxploitation vehicles Coffy and Foxy Brown highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes Horatio Alger narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's meteoric success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.
Part memoir. Part survival guide. Part self-help. Join Tonnisha & Tiffany in their battle for survival, success, & solace in war & at home. An empowering tale of perseverance, womanhood, friendship, & the resilience that comes with soldiering on. Snarky, bold, honest, and unapologetic
Автор: Stacy-deanne Kenyatta, Kelly Lowery, Natasha Название: Alicia keys, ashanti, beyonce, destiny`s child, jennifer lopez and mya ISBN: 0974977969 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780974977966 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Alicia Keys, Ashanti, Beyonce, Destiny`s Child, Jennifer Lopez & Mya are the seven women who have won countless awards, received the highest acclaim, and achieved success in various forms of entertainment, but have never lost themselves in the process. This title presents a compilation of various things about these women.
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