Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon - Couverture rigide

Royster, F.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1403961085 ISBN 13 : 9781403961082

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Synopsis

Cleopatra. Sexy, sultry, political, and racially ambiguous. Moving fluidly from Shakespeare's England to contemporary LA, Francesca Royster looks at the performance of race and sexuality in a wide range of portrayals of that icon of dangerous female sexuality, Cleopatra. Royster begins with Shakespeare's original appropriation of Plutarch, and then moves on to analyze performances of the Cleopatra icon by Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, Pam Grier (Cleopatra Jones) and Queen Latifah (in Set It Off ). Royster argues that Cleopatra highlights a larger cultural anxiety about women, sexuality, and race.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

FRANCESCA ROYSTER is Associate Professor of English at DePaul University, where she teaches courses on Shakespeare, film, and black feminism. She is one of the leading young African American feminist Shakespeare scholars.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1403961085
• ISBN 13: 9781403961082
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 271
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