Tipping on a tight rope
Subtitle: divas in African American literature
By: Aisha Damali Lockridge
Series: African American literature and culture: expanding and exploding the boundaries -- v. 19
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781433105753; 9781453905715
Subjects: African American women in literature; History and criticism; American literature; African American authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Diva does not mean bitch without a cause; title: Helga Crane: failed transnational diva; title: Searching for the diva in Their eyes were watching God; title: The bottom's unrepentant diva; title: Revising Janie Crawford: divas under the male gaze; title: A canvas of her own: the diva in Liliane resurrection of the daughter; title: Conclusion: Divas beyond the Fin de siècle.