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Description of  Moving Performances: Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage

Fabulous yet fierce, imperious yet impetuous, boss yet bitchydivas are figures of paradox. Their place in culture is equally contradictory, as they are simultaneously venerated and marginalized, hailed as timeless but then frequently forgotten or exhumed as cult icons by future generations. Focusing on four early twentieth-century divasAida Overton Walker, Loe Fuller, Libby Holman, and Josephine Bakerwho were icons in their own time, Read more