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Josephine Baker's Colonial Pastiche
- Black Camera
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 1, Number 2, Summer 2010 (The New Series)
- pp. 25-37
- 10.2979/blc.2010.1.2.25
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
This essay explores the first full-length film featuring Josephine Baker: La Siréne des tropiques, produced in 1927. It emphasizes the film's display of myriad facets of interwar French colonial culture and the place of that display in Baker's life and evolving celebrity. Baker's genius, it argues, lies in her playful juxtaposition of the full range of roles defined by the French empire.
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