How Beyonce's 'Lemonade' Exposes Inner Lives of Black Women

Lemonade continues Beyoncé Knowles' longstanding engagement with black Southern regionalism. The video album writes black women back into national, regional and diasporic histories by making them the progenitors and rightful inheritors of the Southern gothic tradition. Beyond "strong" and "magic," Lemonade asserts that black women are alchemists and metaphysicians who are...

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