Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist--Josephine Baker was defined by the various public roles that made her 50-year career an exemplar of postmodern identity. Her legacy continues to influence modern culture more than 40 years after her death. This new collection of essays interprets Baker's life in the context of modernism, feminism, race, gender and sexuality. The contributors focus on various aspects of her life and career, including her performances and public reception, civil rights efforts, the architecture of her unbuilt house, and her modern-day "afterlife."…mehr
Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist--Josephine Baker was defined by the various public roles that made her 50-year career an exemplar of postmodern identity. Her legacy continues to influence modern culture more than 40 years after her death. This new collection of essays interprets Baker's life in the context of modernism, feminism, race, gender and sexuality. The contributors focus on various aspects of her life and career, including her performances and public reception, civil rights efforts, the architecture of her unbuilt house, and her modern-day "afterlife."Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mae G. Henderson is a professor emerita of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of innumerable articles, essays and books on African American and feminist literary criticism and theory, pedagogy, theatre, popular culture, travel, Afro-diaspora, and black cultural studies. Charlene B. Regester is an associate professor in the Department of African & African American Studies and affiliate faculty with the global cinema minor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: "Josephine, woman of a hundred faces" Mae G. Henderson and Charlene B. Regester Part I. Reception and Perception in the Transatlantic Imaginary To Stockholm, with Love: The Critical Reception of Josephine Baker, 1927-1935 (Ylva Habel) "Of la Baker, I Am a Disciple": The Diva Politics of Reception (Jeanne Scheper) Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre: From Ethnography to Performance (Mae G. Henderson) The Construction of an Image and the Deconstruction of a Star-Josephine Baker Racialized, Sexualized, and Politicized in the African-American Press, the Mainstream Press, and FBI Files (Charlene B. Regester) Part II. Modernism, Primitivism, and Embodied Performance An Intelligence of the Body: Disruptive Parody through Dance in the Early Performances of Josephine Baker (Michael Borshuk) Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity (Terri Francis) Colonial, Postcolonial, and Diasporic Readings of Josephine Baker as Dancer and Performance Artist (Mae G. Henderson) Part III. Filmic Fictions and Narrative Desire Uncanny Performances in Colonial Narratives: Josephine Baker in Princess Tam Tam (Elizabeth Coffman) Josephine Baker and Pierre Batcheff in La Sirène des tropiques (Phil Powrie and Éric Rebillard) Nationalizing and Segregating Performance: Josephine Baker and Stardom in Zouzou (Scott Balcerzak) Part IV. The Architectural Imaginary Historic Architecture: Adolf Loos in Paris-Radical Residences for Josephine Baker and Tristan Tzara (Thomas S. Hines ) A House for Josephine Baker (Karen Burns) The Josephine Baker House: For Loos's Pleasure (Farès el-Dahdah) Subversive Figurations of Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Josephine Baker: A Speculative Reading (Stephen Atkinson) Part V. Staging Civil Rights and Human Rights Globally Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War (Mary L. Dudziak) Adoptive Affinities: Josephine Baker's Humanist International (Jonathan P. Eburne) Josephine Baker and Utopian Visions of Black Paris (Bennetta Jules-Rosette) Josephine Baker's "Rainbow Tribe": Radical Motherhood in the South of France (Matthew Pratt Guterl) Works Cited About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: "Josephine, woman of a hundred faces" Mae G. Henderson and Charlene B. Regester Part I. Reception and Perception in the Transatlantic Imaginary To Stockholm, with Love: The Critical Reception of Josephine Baker, 1927-1935 (Ylva Habel) "Of la Baker, I Am a Disciple": The Diva Politics of Reception (Jeanne Scheper) Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre: From Ethnography to Performance (Mae G. Henderson) The Construction of an Image and the Deconstruction of a Star-Josephine Baker Racialized, Sexualized, and Politicized in the African-American Press, the Mainstream Press, and FBI Files (Charlene B. Regester) Part II. Modernism, Primitivism, and Embodied Performance An Intelligence of the Body: Disruptive Parody through Dance in the Early Performances of Josephine Baker (Michael Borshuk) Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity (Terri Francis) Colonial, Postcolonial, and Diasporic Readings of Josephine Baker as Dancer and Performance Artist (Mae G. Henderson) Part III. Filmic Fictions and Narrative Desire Uncanny Performances in Colonial Narratives: Josephine Baker in Princess Tam Tam (Elizabeth Coffman) Josephine Baker and Pierre Batcheff in La Sirène des tropiques (Phil Powrie and Éric Rebillard) Nationalizing and Segregating Performance: Josephine Baker and Stardom in Zouzou (Scott Balcerzak) Part IV. The Architectural Imaginary Historic Architecture: Adolf Loos in Paris-Radical Residences for Josephine Baker and Tristan Tzara (Thomas S. Hines ) A House for Josephine Baker (Karen Burns) The Josephine Baker House: For Loos's Pleasure (Farès el-Dahdah) Subversive Figurations of Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Josephine Baker: A Speculative Reading (Stephen Atkinson) Part V. Staging Civil Rights and Human Rights Globally Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War (Mary L. Dudziak) Adoptive Affinities: Josephine Baker's Humanist International (Jonathan P. Eburne) Josephine Baker and Utopian Visions of Black Paris (Bennetta Jules-Rosette) Josephine Baker's "Rainbow Tribe": Radical Motherhood in the South of France (Matthew Pratt Guterl) Works Cited About the Contributors Index
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