| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 475 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
afroamerikansk |
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teater |
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fargede |
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skuespillere |
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teatersosiologi |
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Amerika |
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Forente |
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stater |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-453) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Brown, Henry Box, 1816-
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Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth) -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816- fast |
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Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth) fast |
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Hopkins, Pauline E. 1859-1930 gnd |
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Fürstliches Schauspielhaus Bad Pyrmont gnd |
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Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
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African Americans in the performing arts.
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African American theater -- History -- 19th century
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African American theater -- History -- 20th century
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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African American theater
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African Americans in the performing arts
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Schwarze
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Theater
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Menselijk lichaam.
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Voorstellingen (uitvoerende kunsten)
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Schwärze
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USA
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822387558 |
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0822387557 |
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0822337223 |
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9780822337225 |
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