Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 218 pages)
,
illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0472072269
,
0472052268
,
0472120433
,
1322069190
,
9780472072262
,
9780472052264
,
9780472120437
,
9781322069197
Serie:
Theater: theory / text/performance
Inhalt:
Introduction: the "common sense" of slavery in the free Antebellum North -- Setting the stage of black freedom: parades and "presence" in the New Nation -- Black politics but not black people: early minstrelsy, "white slavery", and the wedge of "blackness" -- Washington and the slave: black deformations, proslavery domesticity, and re-staging the birth of the nation -- The theatocracy of antebellum social reform: "monkeyism" and the mode of romantic racialism -- Melodrama and the performance of slave testimony; or, William Wells Brown's Inability to Escape -- Epilogue: no exit, but a new stage
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-206) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jones, Douglas A Captive stage Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Sprache:
Englisch
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