Wanda and Shannan sit down with literary scholar and Crunk Feminist blogger Dr. Susana Morris to talk about Beauty and the Beast. Belle reads, y’all. That mob scene at the end, though — so much to uncover.
Y’all, I can’t remember if we explicitly mention this on the air, but we recorded this episode the day Kavanaugh was confirmed. We reference it being a hard day. That’s why.
You can find our wonderful guest, Dr. Susana Morris, through Charis Books and More and her work through Charis Circle. You can also follow her on Twitter.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature by Susana M. Morris
- Disney’s animated Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- Disney’s live action Beauty and the Beast (2017)
- Beauty and the Beast (Television 1987-1990)
- Beauty and the Beast (Television 2012-2016)
- Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale by Betsy Hearne – Source for versions by Madame de Villeneuve and Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont
- Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et le bête (1946)
- Kindred by Octavia Butler
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- “Beauty and the Beast: The Romanticization of Abuse in Popular Culture” by Laura Beres – article
- “The American Dream and the American Negro” by James Baldwin
- National Memorial for Peace and Justice
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Beauty by Joyce Sherri (Project Her)
- Shrek (2001)
- Crunk Feminist Collective
- Crunk Feminist Collection by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn
