The showman and the slave : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America /

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Reiss uses P.T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reiss, Benjamin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Edición:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Temas:
Barnum, P. T. > (Phineas Taylor), > 1810-1891.
Heth, Joice, > -1836.
Barnum, P. T. > (Phineas Taylor), > 1810-1891
Heth, Joice, > -1836
1800-1899
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Enslaved women > United States > Biography.
Freak shows > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
White people > Race identity > United States.
African Americans in popular culture > History > 19th century.
Racism in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Death in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes esclaves > États-Unis > Biographies.
Exhibitions de monstres > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains dans la culture populaire > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Racisme dans la culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Mort dans la culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
African Americans in popular culture
Death in popular culture
Popular culture
Race relations
Racism in popular culture
White people > Race identity
Enslaved women
Northeastern States > Race relations.
États-Unis (Nord-Est) > Relations raciales.
Northeastern States
United States
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • AckrunvZedgments
  • Introduction: The Dark Subject
  • 1. DEATH AND DYING
  • 1. Possession
  • 2. The Celebrated Curiosity
  • 3. Private Acts, Public Memories
  • 4. Sacred and Profane
  • 5. Culture Wars
  • 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber
  • 7. Spectacle
  • II. RESURRECTION
  • 8. Authenticity and Commodity
  • 9. Exposure and Mastery
  • 10. Erasure
  • III. LIFE
  • 11. A Speculative Biography
  • Note to the 2010 Printing
  • Notes
  • Index

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