Madonna's Drowned Worlds
Madonna's Drowned Worlds Madonna is perhaps one of the most consistently transgressive and self-transforming artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Madonna presents a set of strikingly…
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Madonna's Drowned Worlds
Madonna is perhaps one of the most consistently transgressive and self-transforming artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Madonna presents a set of strikingly new challenges to cultural analysis, and new developments in Gender, Queer and Ethnic studies have shed more light on her entire oeuvre. The recent release of two critically acclaimed and best-selling albums and a sold-out world tour have renewed media and academic interest in the artist.
In view of this, the present volume offers new perspectives on Madonna's work to date, addressing her configurations of race, gender and sex(uality) and with special emphasis on her resurrection after the Sex backlash in the early 1990s. Whilst the contributors do refer to classic cultural theorists such as Baudrillard, Zizek, Foucault and Barthes, new theoretical approaches to Madonna's work feature prominently. The collection