The Lemonade Reader

This is in interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé's 2016 visual album, Lemonade. Essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fuelled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture, religion, and black feminism. *

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Informationen zum Autor Kinitra D. Brooks is the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University, USA. Dr. Brooks specializes in the study of black women, genre fiction, and popular culture. She currently has two books in print: Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror (2017), a critical treatment of black women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror; and Sycorax's Daughters (2017), an edited volume of short horror fiction written by black women. Her current research focuses on portrayals of the conjure woman in popular culture. Dr. Brooks is serving as the Advancing Equity Through Research Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University for the 20182019 academic year. Kameelah L. Martin is Professor of African American Studies and English at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, USA, where she is also Director of the African American Studies Program. Dr. Martin's research explores the lore cycle of the conjure woman as an archetype in literature and visual texts. She is author of two monographs: Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo (2013) and Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics: African Spirituality in American Cinema (2016). She is the Assistant Editor of the College Language Association Journal and has published in Studies in the Literary Imagination ; Black Women, Gender, and Families ; and the African American National Biography . She has edited special issues of Genealogy and South Atlantic Review , and co-edited a section of The Routledge Anthology of African American Rhetori c (2018). Klappentext The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé'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. Zusammenfassung This is in interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé's 2016 visual album, Lemonade. Essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fuelled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture, religion, and black feminism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Candice Benbow; Preface by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting; Acknowledgements; Introduction by Kinitra D. Brooks & Kameelah L. Martin; Interlude A: What Do We Want from Beyoncé? by Maiysha Kai; Interlude B: Bittersweet Like Me: When the Lemonade Ain't Made For Fat Black Femmes and Women by Ashleigh Shackelford; Part I: Some Shit is Just for Us Chapter One --Some Shit is Just for Us: Intro by Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis; Chapter Two --Something Akin to Freedom: Sexual Love, Political Agency, and Lemonade by Lindsey Stewart; Chapter Three-- Getting to the Roots of "Becky with the Good Hair" in Lemonade by Janell Hobson; Chapter Four<...

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Kinitra D. Brooks is the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University, USA. Dr. Brooks specializes in the study of black women, genre fiction, and popular culture. She currently has two books in print: Searching for Sycorax: Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror (2017), a critical treatment of black women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror; and Sycorax's Daughters (2017), an edited volume of short horror fiction written by black women. Her current research focuses on portrayals of the conjure woman in popular culture. Dr. Brooks is serving as the Advancing Equity Through Research Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University for the 20182019 academic year.

Kameelah L. Martin is Professor of African American Studies and English at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, USA, where she is also Director of the African American Studies Program. Dr. Martin's research explores the lore cycle of the conjure woman as an archetype in literature and visual texts. She is author of two monographs: Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo (2013) and Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics: African Spirituality in American Cinema (2016). She is the Assistant Editor of the College Language Association Journal and has published in Studies in the Literary Imagination; Black Women, Gender, and Families; and the African American National Biography. She has edited special issues of Genealogy and South Atlantic Review, and co-edited a section of The Routledge Anthology of African American Rhetoric (2018).

Klappentext

The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé'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.

Inhalt

Foreword by Candice Benbow; Preface by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting; Acknowledgements; Introduction by Kinitra D. Brooks & Kameelah L. Martin; Interlude A: What Do We Want from Beyoncé? by Maiysha Kai; Interlude B: Bittersweet Like Me: When the Lemonade Ain't Made For Fat Black Femmes and Women by Ashleigh Shackelford; Part I: Some Shit is Just for Us Chapter One--Some Shit is Just for Us: Intro by Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis; Chapter Two--Something Akin to Freedom: Sexual Love, Political Agency, and Lemonade by Lindsey Stewart; Chapter Three--Getting to the Roots of "Becky with the Good Hair" in Lemonade by Janell Hobson; Chapter Four--Pull the Sorrow from Between My Legs: Lemonade as Rumination on Reproduction and Loss by LaKisha M. Simmons;Chapter Five--The Language of Lemonade: The Sociolinguistic and Rhetorical Strategies Beyoncé's Lemonade by Alexis McGee; *Interlude C: How Not to Listen to Lemonade*: Music Criticism and Epistemic Violence by Robin James; Interlude D: Women Like H…