ISBN:
9780816645213
,
9780816645213
Language:
English
Pages:
XXXI, 273 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
305.8009747/10903
Keywords:
Geschichte 1880-1924
;
Einwanderer
;
Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Minderheit
;
Minorities Social conditions
;
Minorities Intellectual life
;
Immigrants Social conditions
;
Immigrants Intellectual life
;
Performing arts Social aspects
;
History
;
Self History
;
Ethnicity History
;
City and town life History
;
Einwanderer
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Stadtleben
;
New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations
;
New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life
;
New York, NY
;
New York, NY
;
Einwanderer
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Stadtleben
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Geschichte 1880-1924
Abstract:
'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation.
Description / Table of Contents:
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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