Caroline Randall Williams

LUCY NEGRO, REDUX

The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet

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Lucy Negro, Redux, uses the lens of Shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets to explore the way questions about and desire for the black female body have evolved over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South to the present day. Equally interested in the sensual and the serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection experiments with form, dialect, persona, and voice. Ultimately a hybrid document, Lucy Negro Redux harnesses blues poetry, deconstructed sonnets, historical documents and lyric essays to tell the challenging, many-faceted story of the Dark Lady, her Shakespeare, and their real and imagined milieu. Inspired by the book, Th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-73484-221-0
EAN: 9781734842210
Produktnummer: 33800473
Verlag: Third Man Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'384 KB
Abbildungen: 5 black and white photos from the NYC rehearsal of the ballet based on the book.

Über den Autor

Caroline Randall Williams is a multi-genre writer and and educator in Nashville Tennessee. She is co-author of the Phyllis Wheatley Award-winning young adult novel The Diary of B.B. Bright, and the NAACP Image Award-winning cookbook Soul Food Love. Named by Southern Living as One of the 50 People changing the South, the Cave Canem fellow has been published in multiple journals, essay collections and news outlets, including The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, CherryBombe and the New York Times. Her debut collection of poetry, Lucy Negro, Redux: The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet (Third Man Books, Spring 2019) is being turned into a ballet to debut in 2019.