ENG 255 C BEYONCÉ: LITERATURE AND LEMONADE

Using Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album “Lemonade” to guide and structure the course, we’ll explore issues of race, gender, consumption, pop-culture, and literature as we closely read the album’s literary and visual texts using an intersectional feminist lens. We’ll also examine inspiration, cultural appropriation, and intellectual property through works the visual album borrows from and works inspired by it. Authors may include Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, Warsan Shire, Morgan Parker, and bell hooks, among others.