Walking the Tightrope: Selfhood and Speculative Fiction in Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid
Janelle Monáe’s multi-part, multi-media work Metropolis can be read as a speculative fiction text. In my work, I examine the ways in which Monáe uses the structure of her second album The ArchAndroid and the music, lyrics, and dance of her video "Tightrope" to contribute to her underlying...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42520 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05072012-133144/ |