Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, 2016
Series: Book 27 of 80 - Jewish Lives
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- Title
- Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
- Author
- Gabler, Neal
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- VG
- Dust jacket
- VG
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300210914
- ISBN 13
- 9780300210910
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Steve Shapiro/corbis, Jacket Photo
- Series
- Book 27 of 80: Jewish Lives
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"This brief biography looks at a well-documented star in a new way."―Lisa Schwarzbaum, New York Times Book Review
Barbra Streisand has been called the “most successful...talented performer of her generation” by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is “one of the natural wonders of the age.” Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment―from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business. To achieve her success, Brooklyn-born Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was her Jewishness. Dismissed, insulted, even reviled when she embarked on a show business career for acting too Jewish and looking too Jewish, she brilliantly converted her Jewishness into a metaphor for outsiderness that would eventually make her the avenger for anyone who felt marginalized and powerless.
Neal Gabler examines Streisand’s life and career through this prism of otherness―a Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky girl in a world of convention―and shows how central it was to Streisand’s triumph as one of the voices of her age.
About Jewish Lives:
Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.
In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.
More praise for Jewish Lives:
"Excellent" –New York Times
"Exemplary" –Wall St. Journal
"Distinguished" –New Yorker
"Superb" –The Guardian
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