-
Lena Horne and Judy Garland: Divas, Desire, and Discipline in the Civil Rights Era
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2014 (T224)
- pp. 105-119
- Article
- Additional Information
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.