Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon (2003)
F Royster
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Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$137.99
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Publish Date
September 01, 2003
Pages
258
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.7 X 0.94 inches | 0.94 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781403961082
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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.