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The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that
explores the nuances of Beyonce's 2016 visual album, Lemonade. The
essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship
fueled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture,
religion, and black feminism. Envisioned as an educational tool to
support and guide discussions of the visual album at postgraduate
and undergraduate levels, The Lemonade Reader critiques Lemonade's
multiple Afrodiasporic influences, visual aesthetics, narrative arc
of grief and healing, and ethnomusicological reach. The essays,
written by both scholars and popular bloggers, reflects a broad yet
uniquely specific black feminist investigation into constructions
of race, gender, spirituality, and southern identity. The Lemonade
Reader gathers a newer generation of black feminist scholars to
engage in intellectual discourse and confront the emotional labor
around the Lemonade phenomena. It is the premiere source for
examining Lemonade, a text that will continue to have a lasting
impact on black women's studies and popular culture.
The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that
explores the nuances of Beyonce's 2016 visual album, Lemonade. The
essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship
fueled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture,
religion, and black feminism. Envisioned as an educational tool to
support and guide discussions of the visual album at postgraduate
and undergraduate levels, The Lemonade Reader critiques Lemonade's
multiple Afrodiasporic influences, visual aesthetics, narrative arc
of grief and healing, and ethnomusicological reach. The essays,
written by both scholars and popular bloggers, reflects a broad yet
uniquely specific black feminist investigation into constructions
of race, gender, spirituality, and southern identity. The Lemonade
Reader gathers a newer generation of black feminist scholars to
engage in intellectual discourse and confront the emotional labor
around the Lemonade phenomena. It is the premiere source for
examining Lemonade, a text that will continue to have a lasting
impact on black women's studies and popular culture.
Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women
in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks
creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic
women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and
interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by
Black feminist theory. Brooks examines the works of women across
the African diaspora, from Haiti, Trinidad, and Jamaica, to England
and the United States, looking at new and canonized horror texts by
Nalo Hopkinson, NK Jemisin, Gloria Naylor, and Chesya Burke. These
Black women fiction writers take advantage of horror's ability to
highlight U.S. white dominant cultural anxieties by using Africana
folklore to revise horror's semiotics within their own imaginary.
Ultimately, Brooks compares the legacy of Shakespeare's Sycorax (of
The Tempest) to Black women writers themselves, who, deprived of
mainstream access to self-articulation, nevertheless influence the
trajectory of horror criticism by forcing the genre to
de-centralize whiteness and maleness.
Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women
in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks
creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic
women, challenging the horror genre's historic themes and
interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by
Black feminist theory. Brooks examines the works of women across
the African diaspora, from Haiti, Trinidad, and Jamaica, to England
and the United States, looking at new and canonized horror texts by
Nalo Hopkinson, NK Jemisin, Gloria Naylor, and Chesya Burke. These
Black women fiction writers take advantage of horror's ability to
highlight U.S. white dominant cultural anxieties by using Africana
folklore to revise horror's semiotics within their own imaginary.
Ultimately, Brooks compares the legacy of Shakespeare's Sycorax (of
The Tempest) to Black women writers themselves, who, deprived of
mainstream access to self-articulation, nevertheless influence the
trajectory of horror criticism by forcing the genre to
de-centralize whiteness and maleness.
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