ISBN:
9780816645213
,
9780816645220
,
0816645213
,
0816645221
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXI, 273 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
305.800974710903
Keywords:
Geschichte 1880-1924
;
Einwanderer
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Stadtleben
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
New York, NY
Abstract:
pt. 1. The city as theater : performativity and urban space -- The epistemology of the city -- Detecting, acting, and the hierarchy of the social body -- Crossing the Bowery : female slumming and the theater of urban space -- Eros and Americanization : the rise of David Levinsky, or, The etiquette of race and sex -- pt. 2. Stages of identity : performing ethnic subjects -- Juggling identities : the case of an Italian-American clown -- My other/my self : impersonation and the rehearsal of otherness -- The truth of racial signs : civilizing the Jewish comic -- Blackface, Jewface, whiteface : racial impersonation revisited
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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