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Bodies in dissent : spectacular performances of race and freedom, 1850-1910 /
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-actua...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2006
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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