ENG 255 A BEYONCE: LITERATURE AND LEMONADE

Using Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album “Lemonade” as foundation and structure for the course, we’ll explore issues of race, gender, consumption, pop-culture, and literature, with a focus on international Black feminist theorists and authors, including bell hooks, Warsaw Shire, and Toni Morrison. We’ll also examine issues of inspiration, cultural appropriation, intellectual property through works the visual album borrows from and works inspired by it.