Alter Egoing: The Shifting Affects of Janelle Monáe

In this article, I use alter egoing as a heuristic, a method for solving the problem of the evolving alter egos of Black women in popular music. When alter egos are analyzed through this lens, the refashioning of artistic imaginaries become legible as intellectual labor. The intellectual labor that...

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Main Author: Larissa A. Irizarry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cultural Studies Association 2022-06-01
Series:Lateral
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Online Access:https://csalateral.org/issue/11-1/alter-egoing-shifting-affects-janelle-monae-irizarry/