1620713578     

474062694                        

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The captive stage : performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North / Douglas A. Jones, Jr

Jones, Douglas A.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]

X, 218 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: the "common sense" of slavery in the free Antebellum NorthSetting 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-206) and index

978-0-472-07226-2 (hardback); 978-0-472-05226-4 (paperback)

978-0-472-12043-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

784043655

OCoLC: 895757471     

OCoLC: 895757471 (aus SWB)     

HT 1784      Ähnliche Literatur

PN2270.A35

306.09 ; 812/.3093552

Basisklassifikation: 18.06 (Angloamerikanische Literatur) ; 17.82 (Dramatik)

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,26

*USA / Nordstaaten ; Darstellende Kunst ; Theater ; Minstrel show ; Bühnenkünstler ; Schwarze ; Geschichte 1789-1860     Zum Register

LOC-SH: African Americans in the performing arts -- Northeastern states -- History -- 19th century ; Northeastern states -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century ; Race discrimination -- Northeastern states -- History -- 19th century ; Whites -- Northeastern states -- History -- 19th century ; Blackface entertainers -- Northeastern states -- History -- 29th century ; Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century