From Book to Film: Desire in Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009), Adapted from Push by Sapphire (1995)

Anne Crémieux (1)

1 CREA (EA 370) - Centre de Recherches Anglophones

How does the performance of blackness reframe issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality? Here, the contributors look into representational practices in film, literature, fashion, and theatre and explore how they have fleshed out political struggles, while recognizing that they have sometimes maintained the mechanisms of violence against blacks.

Domaines: Linguistique; Littératures; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Anne Crémieux. From Book to Film: Desire in Precious (Lee Daniels, 2009), Adapted from Push by Sapphire (1995). Rocchi; Jean-Paul and Lemoine; Xavier and Cremieux; Anne. Understanding Blackness through Performance Contemporary Arts and the Representation of Identity, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 978-1-137-31380-5. ⟨10.1057/9781137313805_8⟩. ⟨hal-01639930⟩