Title:
Fearless and free : a memoir / Josephine Baker ; translated from the French by Anam Zafar and Sophie Lewis ; foreword by Ijeoma Oluo.
ISBN:
9780593853696
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Edition:
First English-language edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Tiny Reparations Books, 2025.
Physical Description:
xiv, 282 pages ; 22 cm.
General Note:
"Tiny Reparations Books."
Contents:
Foreward / Ijeoma Oluo -- Introduction / Marcel Sauvage -- From the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the Seine -- Paris news and views -- First tour of the old and new worlds -- A cinematic turn -- An enormous appetite and soft skin -- How I became a singer -- From the stage to the gramophone -- Four years of adventure -- Secrets from the boudoir -- A final word on the celebrities of the time -- Afterword / Jean-Claude Bouillon-Baker.
Summary:
"Published in English for the first time, this is the memoir of the fabulous, rule-breaking, one-of-a-kind Josephine Baker"-- Provided by publisher.
"This is Josephine Baker in her own words. Josephine Baker took Paris by storm in the 1920s, dazzling audiences with her humour, beauty and effervescence on stage. She became an icon. Hemingway, Jean Cocteau and Picasso admired her; Shirley Bassey adored 'I swear in all my life I have never seen, and probably never shall see again, such a spectacular singer and performer'. It was told she strolled the streets of Paris with her pet cheetah who wore a diamond collar. Later, as one of the most recognisable women in the world, she became a spy for the French resistance, her celebrity working as her cover. She was awarded the Légion d'Honneur for military service. After the war she became increasingly interested in civil rights. In 1963 she spoke at the March on Washington alongside Martin Luther King. All this from a girl born in Missouri to a poor single black woman and a white father she did not know. Flirtatious, funny, candid and this memoir gives us the wildly famous but elusive Josephine Baker telling her own story. Formed from a series of conversations with the French journalist Marcel Sauvage, over a period of more than twenty years, this book offers an entertaining insight into one of the most interesting and beguiling figures of the twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher.
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Language Note:
Translated into English from the original French text. Translation of: Memoires de Josephine Baker.
OCLC Number:
on1484830566
Availability:
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