spectacular performances of race and freedom, 1850-1910 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Daphne A. Brooks.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Durham :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Duke University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 475 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-453) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Our bodies, our/selves: racial phantasmagoria and cultural struggle -- The escape artist: Henry Box Brown, black abolitionist performance, and moving panoramas of slavery -- The deeds done in my body: performance, black(ened) women, and Adah Isaacs Menken in the racial imaginary -- Alien/nation: re-imagining the black body (politic) in Williams and Walker's In Dahomey -- Divas and diasporic consciousness: song, dance, and new negro womanhood in the veil -- Epilogue: theater, black women, and change.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Highlighting the connections between performance & construction of racial identities, this work argues that from the mid 19th century to the early 20th, black transatlantic entertainers often transformed the alienating conditions of social & political marginalisation into modes of self-actualisation through performance.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Brown, Henry Box,1815 or 1816-
Hopkins, Pauline E., (Pauline Elizabeth)-- Criticism and interpretation.
Brown, Henry Box,né 1816.
Hopkins, Pauline E., (Pauline Elizabeth)-- Critique et interprétation.
Brown, Henry Box,1815 or 1816-
Hopkins, Pauline E., (Pauline Elizabeth)
Hopkins, Pauline E., 1859-1930
Schwarze, ...
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Fürstliches Schauspielhaus, Bad Pyrmont
University of South Alabama
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African American theater-- History-- 19th century.
African American theater-- History-- 20th century.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Noirs américains dans les arts du spectacle.
Théâtre noir américain-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.
Théâtre noir américain-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.