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The captive stage : performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Douglas A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Colección:Theater--theory/text/performance.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the "common sense" of slavery in the free Antebellum North
  • Setting the stage of black freedom: parades and "presence" in the New Nation
  • Black politics but not black people: early minstrelsy, "white slavery", and the wedge of "blackness"
  • Washington and the slave: black deformations, proslavery domesticity, and re-staging the birth of the nation
  • The theatocracy of antebellum social reform: "monkeyism" and the mode of romantic racialism
  • Melodrama and the performance of slave testimony; or, William Wells Brown's Inability to Escape
  • Epilogue: no exit, but a new stage.