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Author:   Mae G. Henderson ,  Charlene B. Regester
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.649kg
ISBN:  

9781476665818

ISBN 10:   1476665818
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   21 June 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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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collection contains 18 historical and critical essays on entertainer and activist Josephine Baker's life, career, and impact in the context of modernism, feminism, race, gender, and sexuality --ProtoView.

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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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