Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image

Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. University of Illinois Press, 2007. 368 pages. Nice Firm copy ! Light general wear. Previous owner name written on half-title page. Size: 8.9 x 6.5 x 1. Biography Media/Performing Arts::Star Biographies History::U.S.A.::Black History 0400

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Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction nor simple biography, Josephine Baker in Art and Life presents a critical cultural study of the life and art of the Franco-American performer whose appearances as the savage dancer Fatou shocked the world.

Although the study remains firmly anchored in Josephine Baker's life and times, presenting and challenging carefully researched biographical facts, it also offers in-depth analyses of the images that she constructed and advanced. Bennetta Jules-Rosette explores Baker's far-ranging and dynamic career from a sociological and cultural perspective, using the tools of sociosemiotics to excavate the narratives, images, and representations that trace the story of her life and fit together as a cultural production.

Product Info

ISBN: 0252074122

ISBN-13: 9780252074127

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Year: 2007

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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