#  Kinitra D. Brooks and Kameelah L. Martin present 'The Lemonade Reader: Beyoncé, Black Feminism and Spirituality' 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 10, 2019** 

 07:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

 Join **KINITRA D. BROOKS** and **KAMEELAH L. MARTIN** for a discussion of their new co-edited book, ***The Lemonade Reader: Beyoncé, Black Feminism and Spirituality.***

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 **About *The Lemonade Reader:***

 *The Lemonade Reader* is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album, *Lemonade*. Essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fuelled 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 undergraduate and postgraduate 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 premier source for examining *Lemonade*, a text that will continue to have a lasting impact on black women’s studies and popular culture.

 **Kameelah L. Martin** is Professor of African American Studies and English at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where she is also Director of the African American Studies Program. She is the author of two monographs: *Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, & Other Such Hoodoo* (Palgrave 2013) and *Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics: African Spirituality in American Cinema* (Lexington 2016). She is the Assistant Editor of the College Language Association Journal and has published in *Studies in the Literary Imagination, Black Women, Gender, and Families*, as well as the African American National Biography.

**Kinitra D. Brooks** is the Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Dr. Brooks specializes in the study of black women, genre fiction, and popular culture. She currently has two books in print: *Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror* (2017), a critical treatment of black women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and *Sycorax’s Daughters* (2017), an edited volume of short horror fiction written by black women. Dr. Brooks will serve as the Advancing Equity Through Research Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University for the 2018-2019 academic year.

 

 



 

 

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