Diva traffic and male bonding in film: Teaching opera, learning gender, race, and nation

Camera Obscura

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 47-73

  Nero, Charles I ^a  

^a BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 60950088127     PISSN: 02705346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/02705346-19-2_56-47     Document Type: Review

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1. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), 1.
2. Gayle S. Rubin, "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex," in Toward an Anthropology of Women, ed. Rayna R. Reiter (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975), 175-76.
3. See Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 141. Gates uses this term to describe the efforts blacks made to demonstrate their humanity by mastering literacy in the very first slave narratives.
4. Emilio Bejel, Gay Cuban Nation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 156-57.
5. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Douhle Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), esp. 13-15, 72-110, and 201-5.
6. Also see Paul Gilroy, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 165.
7. Sam Abel, Opera in the Flesh: Sexuality in Operatic Performance (New York: Westview, 1996), 63.
8. Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire (New York: Vintage Books, 1993), 48.
9. Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality," in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, ed. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David M. Halperin (New York: Routledge, 1993), 3-44.
10. Ian Lumsden, Machos, Maricones, and Gays: Cuba and Homosexuality (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996), esp. 65-70;
11. Bejel, Gay Cuban Nation, 100-105.
12. Rubin, "The Traffic in Women," 172.
13. Jeremy Tambling, Opera, Ideology, and Film (New York: St. Martin's, 1987), 51.
14. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. Werner S. Pluhar (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987), 98.
15. Wye Allanbrook, "Human Nature in the Unnatural Garden: Figaro as Pastoral," Current Musicology 51 (1993): 84-85.
16. Joan B. Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988), 24.
17. Andrea Chenier, libretto by Luigi Ilica, trans. Martin L. Sokol, music by Umberto Giordano, cond. James Levine, RCA Records, 1977.
18. Patricia Hill Collins delineates these two stereotypes in Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990), 67-90.
19. For discussions of them in film and in literature, see Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films (New York: Continuum Books; rev. ed. 1989),
20. Trudier Harris, From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982).
21. Also see Deborah Gray White, Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South (New York: W. W. Norton, 1985).
22. Regina Austin, "Sapphire Bound!" Wisconsin Law Review (1989): 570.
23. Gilbert Price, "Capitol Comments: AIDS, Race, and the Senate," Cleveland Call and Post, 3 February 1994;
24. Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Blackness and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), 68.
25. See Bogle, "The 1980s: Black Superstars and the Era of Tan," in Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks, 267-302;
26. Donald Bogie, Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television (New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2001);
27. Thomas Cripps, Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), esp. 215-49;
28. Benjamin DeMott, The Trouble with Friendship: Why Americans Can't Think Straight about Race (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 7-23;
29. Ed Guerrero, "The Black Image in Protective Custody: Hollywood's Biracial Buddy Films of the Eighties," in Black American Cinema, ed. Manthia Diawara (New York: Routledge, 1993), 237-46.
30. Marlon B. Ross, "Some Glance at the Black Fag: Race, Same-Sex Desire, and Cultural Belonging," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée (1994): 198.
31. Amy Taubin, "The Odd Couple," Sight and Sound 4 (1993), 24.
32. John M. Clum, "'Culture That Isn't Just Sexual': Dramatizing Gay Male History," Theater Journal (May 1989): 187.
33. See Ruth Landes, The City of Women (New York: Macmillan, 1946);
34. Peter Fry, "Male Homosexuality and Spirit Possession in Brazil," Journal of Homosexuality 11 (1985): 137-53;
35. James Wafer, The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991).
36. See Rosalyn M. Story, And So I Sing: African American Divas of Opera and Concert (New York: Warner Books, 1990), 100-103.
37. Emilio Bejel, "Strawberry and Chocolate: Coming Out of the Cuban Closet?" South Atlantic Quarterly 96 (1997): 71.
38. See Alejandro M. de la Fuente and Laurence Glasco, "Are Blacks 'Getting Out of Control'? Racial Attitudes, Revolution, and Political Transition in Cuba," in Towards a New Cuba? Legacies of a Revolution (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997), 53-72;
39. Aline Helg, Our Rightful Share: The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1866-1912 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), esp. 16-18 and 193-226;
40. William Luis, "Reading the Master Codes of Cuban Culture in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban," Cuban Studies 26 (1996): 214;
41. Gayle L. McGarrity "Race, Culture, and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba," in Cuba in Transition: Crisis and Transformation, ed. Sandor Halebsky and John M. Kirk (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992), 193-206;
42. Carlos Moore, Castro, the Blacks, and Africa (Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, 1988).
43. See Kristin H. Ruggiero, "The Legacy of Sarmiento's Civilization and Barbarism in Modern Argentina," in Sarmiento and His Argentina, ed. Joseph T. Criscenti (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1993), 183-93;
44. McGarrity, "Race, Culture, and Social Change," 193.
45. Paul Julian Smith, "The Language of Strawberry," Sight and Sound 12 (1993): 32.
46. Senel Paz, "Intolerance," Sight and Sound 12 (1993): 33.
47. Johannes Birringer, "Homosexuality and the Nation: An Interview with Jorge Perugorría," Drama Review 40 (1996): 68.
48. DeMott, The Trouble, with Friendship, 23.
49. Gates, The Signifying Monkey, 139.