Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780197748381ISBN-10:197748384UPC:9780197748381Book Category:Education, Literary Criticism, ArtBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:7.90 x 5.80 x 1.40 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC672S80H3
Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface
Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780197748381ISBN-10:197748384UPC:9780197748381Book Category:Education, Literary Criticism, ArtBook Subcategory:AmericanBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:7.90 x 5.80 x 1.40 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC672S80H3
Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English and African American Literature at Princeton University and the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief and Ornamentalism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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