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The captive stage : performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Theater--theory/text/performance.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.