Dancing on the white page : Black women entertainers writing autobiography /
"Dancing on the White Page examines the popular autobiographies of six well-known Black women entertainers - Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt, Whoopi Goldberg, and Mary Wilson - and makes a case for adding Black celebrity autobiography to the African American literary...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2008.
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Colección: | SUNY series, cultural studies in cinema/video.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Dancing on the White Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Lena Horne:The Symbol Must Stand for Something
- 2. Dorothy Dandridge: The Dance of the Black Female Child Entertainer
- 3. Eartha Kitt: The Dance of the Autobiographical Defense
- 4. Diahann Carroll: The Recuperation of Black Widow-Single Mother/Womanhood
- 5. Mary Wilson: Taking Care of the Business of Girlfriends through Autobiography
- 6. Whoopi Goldberg: The Black Woman Celebrity Tell-All Iconoclast
- Conclusion: The Dance Finale:What Have We Here?
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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- C
- D
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- F
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- I
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