Street scenes : staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 /

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The turn of the twentieth century in New York City was characterized by radical transformation as the advent of consumer capitalism confronted established social hierarchies, culture, and conceptions of selfhood. The popular stage existed in a symbiotic relationship with the city and uniquely captur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Romeyn, Esther
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Minorities > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions.
Minorities > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York > Intellectual life.
Performing arts > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York > History.
Self > New York (State) > New York > History.
Ethnicity > New York (State) > New York > History.
City and town life > New York (State) > New York > History.
Minorités > New York (État) > New York > Conditions sociales.
Arts du spectacle > Aspect social > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Moi (Psychologie) > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Ethnicité > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Vie urbaine > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
City and town life
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Immigrants > Intellectual life
Immigrants > Social conditions
Intellectual life
Minorities > Intellectual life
Minorities > Social conditions
Performing arts > Social aspects
Self
New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life.
New York (State) > New York
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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