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Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon

Becoming Cleopatra: The Shifting Image of an Icon

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Literary CriticismFilm StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1403961085
ISBN13: 9781403961082
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 1 2003
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
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.

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