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Lena Horne and Judy Garland: Divas, Desire, and Discipline in the Civil Rights Era

Deborah Paredez
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2014) 58 (4 (224)): 105–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00417
Published: 01 December 2014
Abstract
The diva inhabits and elicits desire that exceeds and implicates the normal. Lena Horne’s 1963 duet with July Garland embodies a model for the ways a Black diva disciplines her body to occupy desire while simultaneously maneuvering against the disciplining clutches of racist desires that circumscribe her body.
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