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Tipping on a Tightrope - Divas in African American Literature (Hardcover, New edition)
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Tipping on a Tightrope - Divas in African American Literature (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: African-American Literature and Culture, 19
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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.
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