Deborah Paredez American Diva recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van het boek. Op 21 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij WW Norton & Co het boek over wat het betekent om een diva te zijn in Amerika, geschreven door Deborah Paredez. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.
Deborah Paredez American Diva review en recensie
Als er in de media een review, boekbespreking of recensie verschijnt van het boek American Diva van de Amerikaanse chair of the Writing Program at Columbia University, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.
- “With American Diva, [Paredez] has put together an insightful ode to the famous women…who have come to embody the often misconstrued term.” (Shannon Carlin, Time)
- “American Diva is a marvel. The divas here all share a virtuosity that demands fierce labor and daring charisma. Divas use their voices and bodies to turn pain into pleasure and defeat into glory. One of Paredez’s great themes is that a diva can empower her audience–us–to reach beyond our ordinary selves. Diva ambition is potent and generous. It challenges other artists and defies cultural pieties. Deborah Paredez is the American Diva reborn as scholar, poet, and critic.” (Margo Jefferson, author of Constructing a Nervous System)
American Diva
Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous
- Auteur: Deborah Paredez (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: non-fictie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: WW. Norton & Co
- Verschijnt; 21 mei 2024
- Omvang: 256 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $27.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek over Amerikaanse diva’s van Deborah Paredez
An impassioned homage to the divas who shake up our world and transform it with their bold, dazzling artistry.
What does it mean to be a “diva”? A shifting, increasingly loaded term, it has been used to both deride and celebrate charismatic and unapologetically fierce performers like Aretha Franklin, Divine, and the women of Labelle. In this brilliant, powerful blend of incisive criticism and electric memoir, Deborah Paredez—scholar, cultural critic, and lifelong diva devotee—unravels our enduring fascination with these icons and explores how divas have challenged American ideas about feminism, performance, and freedom.
American Diva journeys into Tina Turner’s scintillating performances, Celia Cruz’s command of the male-dominated salsa world, the transcendent revival of Jomama Jones after a period of exile, and the unparalleled excellence of Venus and Serena Williams. Recounting how she and her mother endlessly watched Rita Moreno’s powerhouse portrayal of Anita in West Side Story and how she learned much about being bigger than life from her fabulous Tía Lucia, Paredez chronicles the celebrated and skilled performers who not only shaped her life but boldly expressed the aspiration for freedom among brown, Black, and gay communities. Paredez also traces the evolution of the diva through the decades, dismayed at the mid-aughts’ commodification and juvenilizing of its meaning but finding its lasting beauty and power.
Filled with sharp insights and great heart, American Diva is a spirited tribute to the power of performance and the joys of fandom.
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