09/26/21 Lemonade Syllabus | University of Roehampton Lemonade Syllabus View Online (Academic year 2021-2022) 159 items Introduction to the Lemonade Syllabus (1 items) Beyoncé's visual album, Lemonade, is packed with references to black feminist and womanist themes and contains themes that span disciplines such as English Literature, Critical Theory, Historical and Cultural Studies, Theology, Music, Theatre, Dance and Film. Lemonade - described as "a conceptual project based on every woman's journey of self-knowledge and healing" - touches on so many issues of sexual and racial politics that it provides an ideal, accessible gateway into a whole world of literature. The Lemonande Syllabus was created by Candice Benbow, a Rutgers University educator, and features contributions from academics and activists from different subject backgrounds. It contains suggested readings - including books, films, music and poetry - to help you unpack, discover and engage with the multiple themes explored throughout the new album. The Library has compiled this reading list, based on the Lemonade Syllabus with a few other suggestions of our own, to help you access these readings and other interesting works on similar topics. Many of these resources are available online, and those that are not can be borrowed from the University Library. Click on the Table of Contents button above to see the themes at a glance and navigate to relevant sections of the list. To see full details and library holdings click on the title of the item, or on the online resource button to link to electronic resources. For some items you will need to enter your Roehampton login to access full text. Always choose the Shibboleth or Institutional log in option. Download your free copy of the Lemonande Syllabus here 1/18 09/26/21 Lemonade Syllabus | University of Roehampton Dance (18 items) Beyoncé, Girl Power, Real Politics: Dis/Respectability, Post-Raciality and the Politics of Inclusion, (Chapter 15 in The Oxford handbook of dance and the popular screen) - Takiyah Nur-Amin, 2014 Article Kaiso! - Veve A. Clark, Sara E. Johnson, 2006 Book Black Dancing Body - Brenda Dixon Gottschild, 2003 Book Swing Time - Zadie Smith, 2017 Book Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large - Carolyn Cooper, 2004 Book She is Cuba - Melissa Blanco Borelli, 2016 Book Afrofuturist Remains: A Speculative Rendering of Social Dance Futures, v. 2.0 - Thomas DeFrantz Chapter Dancing Many Drums - Thomas F Defrantz, 2002 Book Black Performance Theory - Thomas Defrantz, Anita Gonzalez, 2014 Book To exist is to resist: black feminism in Europe - 2019 Book Brazilian bodies and their choreographies of identification: swing nation - Cristina F. Rosa, 2015 Book Scenes of Subjection - Saidiya V. (Assistant Professor Hartman, 1997 Book Xenofeminism - Helen Hester, 2018 Book Theory and Methods for an Anthropological Study of Dance - Joann W Kealiinohomoku, 2008 Book "The White to Be Angry": Vaginal Davis's Terrorist Drag - Jose Esteban Munoz, 1997-23 2/18 09/26/21 Lemonade Syllabus | University of Roehampton Article 'African-American Dance Revisited: Undoing Master Narratives in the Studying and Teaching Dance History - Takiyah Nur-Amin Chapter The hiplife in Ghana: West African indigenization of hip-hop - Halifu Osumare, 2013 Book Twerking and Cultural Appropriation: Miley Cyrus' Display of Racial Ignorance - Shereen Zink Article Music (2 items) LEMONADE - Beyoncé Audio document | Lemonade is available for streaming on Tidal, and can be purchased on iTunes Lemonade Syllabus Playlist - Spotify Audio document | Listen to our Spotify playlist of music that may inform, influence and compliment your listening of Lemonade. 60 tracks, and over 4 hours of songs by black female artists, featuring the music of FKA Twigs, Laura Mvula, Angel Haze, Erykah Baydu, Nina Simone, and many others, including Queen Bey herself. Fiction & Literature (19 items) Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014 Book | Telling the story of a young Nigerian woman who emigrates to the United States, this novel is an exploration of oppression and the idea of home. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was sampled on Beyoncé's 2014 song "***Flawless". Purple hibiscus: a novel - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2005 Book | When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father, involved in mysterious ways with the unfolding political crisis, sends Kambili and her brother away to their aunt's. Here she discovers love and a life - dangerous and heathen - beyond the confines of her father's authority. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was sampled on Beyoncé's 2014 song "***Flawless". Salt Eaters - Toni Cade Bambara, 1987 Book | Bambara's first novel centres on two women, a spiritual healer and a community activist. It is political in tone, with several of the characters being veterans of the civil rights, feminist, and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Beloved - Toni Morrison, 2007 Book | Powerful novel of slavery and racsim in America. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is a slave who escapes slavery; after twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children. Sethe kills her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured. A woman presumed to be her daughter, called Beloved, returns years later to haunt Sethe's home at 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. Beyoncé's 3/18 09/26/21 Lemonade Syllabus | University of Roehampton "Formation" has drawn comparisons to novelist Toni Morrison. Sula - Toni Morrison, 1993 Book | In Sula, Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown of Medallion, Ohio. Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make in the late 1920s. Beyoncé's "Formation" has drawn comparisons to novelist Toni Morrison. The bluest eye - Toni Morrison, 1990,c1970 Book | Toni Morrison's debut novel, about a year in the life of a young black girl named Pecola who develops an inferiority complex due to her eye color and skin appearance. It is set in Lorain, Ohio, against the backdrop of America's Midwest during the years following the Great Depression. Beyoncé's "Formation" has drawn comparisons to novelist Toni Morrison. The color purple - Alice Walker, 2009 Book | Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. Beyoncé quoted the movie in the liner notes of her first solo album. Possessing the secret of joy - Alice Walker, 1992 Book | This novel tells the story of Tashi, an African woman and a minor character in Alice Walker's earlier novel The Color Purple. Now in the US she comes from Olinka, Alice Walker's fictional African nation where female genital mutilation is practiced. Kindred - Octavia E. Butler, 2014 Book | Part time-travel tale and part slave narrative, this novel is the first-person account of a young African-American woman writer, Dana, who finds herself shuttled between her California home in 1976 and a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation. Their eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston, 2007 Book | The novel narrates main character Janie Crawford's coming of age, from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman in control of her own destiny. Hurston rejected the Racial Uplift efforts to present African Americans in a way that would accommodate the cultural standards of the white majority, yet she also asserted her work as distinct from the work of fellow Harlem Renaissance writers, celebrating the rural, southern African-American communities as she found them. On beauty: a novel - Zadie Smith, 2006 Book | Zadie Smith is a British writer whose work frequently addresses issues around race. On Beauty is a novel about two international mixed-race families and discusses ethnic and cultural differences in both the USA and the UK, black identity, the nature of beauty, and the clash between liberal and conservative academic values. Boy, Snow, Bird. - Helen Oyeyemi, 2015 Book | Oyeyemi, a Nigeria-born British writer, presents this retelling of the Snow White myth. Boy, Snow, Bird is a novel about three women and an unbreakable bond, set against the racial issues in the USA in the 1950s. 4/18 09/26/21 Lemonade Syllabus | University of Roehampton Trumpet - Jackie Kay, 1999 Book | Trumpet is the debut novel of Scottish writer and poet Jackie Kay, and tells the story of an acclaimed black jazz trumpeter, Joss Moody, and the revelation of his biological sex as female after his death, which causes a stir in the public and in his family's life. Passing - Nella Larsen, 2002 Book | Set primarily in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s, the story centers on the reunion of two childhood friends—Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield—and their increasing fascination with each other's lives. The title and central theme of the novel refer to the practice of racial "passing;" Miss Muriel and other stories - Ann Petry, 2008 Book | A collection of stories that captures a remarkably diverse panorama of African-American experience in the 1950s and 1960s. Brothers and sisters - Bebe Moore Campbell, 2000, c1994 Book | Set in a racially troubled Los Angeles, still healing from the deep scars of riot, violence, and suspicion, this novel tells the story of the challenges that a successful African-American woman deals with in life both professionally and personally, and her disillusionment with the American Dream. Mourner's Bench - Sanderia Faye, 2015 Book | A novel about growing up in a small rural Arkansas town in the 1960's when powerful winds of change are swirling around the black community, focussing on eigh-year-old Sarah who is torn between the traditions, religion, and work ethic of her community and the progressive civil rights and feminist politics of her mother.