Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk) af Hannah Durkin
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Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema

(Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Forfatter: Hannah Durkin
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema
Forlag: University of Illinois Press

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Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the first black women to enjoy international screen careers. Both also produced fascinating memoirs that provided vital insights into their artistic philosophies and choices. However, difficulties in accessing and categorizing their works on the screen and on the page have obscured their contributions to film and literature. Hannah Durkin investigates Baker and Dunham's films and writings to shed new light on their legacies as transatlantic artists and civil rights figures. Their trailblazing dancing and choreography reflected a belief that they could use film to confront racist assumptions while also imaginingwithin significant confinesnew aesthetic possibilities for black women. Their writings, meanwhile, revealed their creative process, engagement with criticism, and the ways each mediated cultural constructions of black women's identities. Durkin pays particular attention to the ways dancing bodies function as ever-changing signifiers and de-stabilizing transmitters of cultural identity. In addition, she offers an overdue appraisal of Baker and Dunham's places in cinematic and literary history.

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Forlag University of Illinois Press
Forfatter Hannah Durkin
Type Bog
Format Paperback / softback
Sprog Engelsk
Udgivelsesdato 06-08-2019
Første udgivelsesår 2019
Illustrationer 20 black & white photographs
Originalsprog United States
Sideantal 272
Indbinding Paperback / softback
Forlag University of Illinois Press
Sideoplysninger 272 pages, 20 black & white photographs
Mål 151 x 230 x 20
ISBN-13 / EAN-13 9780252084454