ISBN:
9780822348986
,
1283414066
,
9781283414067
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 326 p.)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Darkening Mirrors
DDC:
305.896/073
Keywords:
African Americans in motion pictures History 20th century
;
African Americans in popular culture History 20th century
;
African American arts 20th century
;
African American theater History 20th century
;
African Americans Race identity 20th century
;
History
;
African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 20th century
;
African American theater -- History -- 20th century
;
African Americans in motion pictures -- History -- 20th century
;
African Americans in popular culture -- History -- 20th century
;
African American arts -- 20th century
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Darkening Mirrors analyzes the complicated relationships between African American identity, as reflected in performances, and the forces of imperialist and racial oppression
Description / Table of Contents:
"Harlem rides the range" : expansion, modernity, and Negro successEpaulets and leaf skirts, warriors and subversives : exoticism in the performance of the Haitian revolution -- Prisms of imperial gaze : swinging the Negro Mikado -- Lens/body : anthropology's methodologies and spaces of reflection in Dunham's diaspora -- Ethnographic refraction : exoticism and diasporic sisterhood in The devil's daughter -- No storm in the weather : domestic bliss and African American performance.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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