The Lemonade Reader
- Editor: Brooks, Kinitra D.
- Editor: Martin, Kameelah L.
The Lemonade Reader
- Editor: Brooks, Kinitra D.
- Editor: Martin, Kameelah L.
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The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album, Lemonade. The essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fueled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture, religion, and black feminism.
Envisioned as an educational tool to support and guide discussions of the visual album at postgraduate and undergraduate levels, The Lemonade Reader critiques Lemonade’s multiple Afrodiasporic influences, visual aesthetics, narrative arc of grief and healing, and ethnomusicological reach. The essays, written by both scholars and popular bloggers, reflects a broad yet uniquely specific black feminist investigation into constructions of race, gender, spirituality, and southern identity.
The Lemonade Reader gathers a newer generation of black feminist scholars to engage in intellectual discourse and confront the emotional labor around the Lemonade phenomena. It is the premiere source for examining Lemonade, a text that will continue to have a lasting impact on black women’s studies and popular culture.
Contents
- Foreword by Candice Benbow;
- Preface by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting; Acknowledgements;
- Introduction by Kinitra D. Brooks & Kameelah L. Martin; Interlude A: What Do We Want from Beyonce? by Maiysha Kai; Interlude B: Bittersweet Like Me: When the Lemonade Ain't Made For Fat Black Femmes and Women by Ashleigh Shackelford;
- Part I : Some Shit is Just for Us Chapter One --Some Shit is Just for Us: Intro by Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis; Chapter Two --Something Akin to Freedom: Sexual Love, Political Agency, and Lemonade by Lindsey Stewart; Chapter Three-- Getting to
- Part II : Of Her Spiritual Strivings Chapter Six --Looking for Beyonce's Spiritual Longing: The Power of Visual/Sonic Meaning-Making by Valerie Bridgeman; Chapter Seven --Beyonce's Lemonade Folklore: Feminine Reverberations of Odu and Afro-Cuban
- Part III : The Lady Sings Her Legacy Chapter Twelve -- The Lady Sings Her Legacy:
- Introduction by Daphne Brooks; Chapter Thirteen --To Feel Like a "Natural Woman": Aretha Franklin, Beyonce and the Ecological Spirituality of Lemonade by Michele Prettyman Beverly; Chapter Fourteen --Beyonce's Western South Serenade by Tyina Steptoe; Ch
