![]() ![]() ![]() Traversing genre and space, she fundamentally transforms the Southern platitude about what one should do when life hands her lemons. But Beyoncé accounts for the method behind black women’s alchemy. Rihanna uses her “glitter to make gold,” Erykah Badu compels men to “change jobs and change gods” and Janelle Monáe’s Cindi Mayweather is secretly leading the Android Revolution. Beyond “strong” and “magic,” Lemonade asserts that black women are alchemists and metaphysicians who are at once of the past, present and future, changing and healing the physical, chemical and spiritual world around them. 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. ![]() Lemonadecontinues Beyoncé Knowles‘ longstanding engagement with black Southern regionalism. ![]()
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