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Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy /

"Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy explores the overlap and interplay between Uncle Tom and Jim Crow. Through his careful attention to the seemingly different worlds of abolition and minstrelsy, Nowatzki makes an important contribution to our...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nowatzki, Robert, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Strange bedfellows : blackface minstrelsy and abolitionism in America
  • Abolitionism, nationalism, blackface minstrelsy, and racial attitudes in Victorian Britain
  • Race, abolitionism, and blackface imagery in Victorian literature
  • "Our only truly national poets" : blackface minstrelsy, slave narratives, cultural nationalism, and the American Renaissance
  • Blackface tropes in nineteenth-century American literature.