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Citizenship on Catfish Row : Race and Nation in American Popular Culture /
"Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; the first integrated musical, Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Showboat; and the first great American opera,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, |d 1946- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Citizenship on Catfish Row : |b Race and Nation in American Popular Culture / |c Geoffrey Galt Harpham. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Columbia, South Carolina : |b University of South Carolina Press, |c 2022. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2022 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2022. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (184 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction. Art and America -- The Nation in The Birth of a Nation -- Show Boat and the Strain of Race -- Porgy and Bess and the Danse Americaine -- Conclusion. A More Perfect Disunion. | |
| 520 | |a "Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; the first integrated musical, Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern's Showboat; and the first great American opera, George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Each of these works sought to make a statement about American identity in the form of a narrative, and each included in that narrative a prominent role for Black people.Each work included jarring or discordant elements that pointed to a deeper tension between the kind of stories Americans wish to tell about themselves and the historical and social reality of race. Although all three have been widely criticized, their efforts to connect the concepts of nation and race are not only instructive about the history of the American imagination but also provide unexpected resources for contemporary reflection"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 520 | |a "Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Culture retrieves three "iconic" works, each of which launched an entire genre-the serious narrative film (The Birth of a Nation), the "integrated musical" (Show Boat), and American opera (Porgy and Bess), to interpret popular entertainment in the Jim Crow era. Despite their manifold differences, these radically innovative works shared two striking features: each attempted to represent the character or spirit of America in narrative form, and each included in that story a central role for the issue of race. As popular entertainment designed to appeal to audiences, these works both endorsed and helped to shape a contemporary social consensus on race that we now find grievously flawed, and each has been sharply and appropriately criticized on that account. But when read with attention to the many ways in which they seem to question, and even contradict themselves, these works appear in a very different light, not as monuments to a dishonorable past but as expressions of a conflicted and uncertain culture burdened by history but groping its way-not always with a purposeful stride, not always with clear sight, and not always in good faith-toward a present moment confident enough of its position to criticize them. By identifying the common ambition in these foundational works, Citizenship on Catfish Row enables us to see them as moments in an evolving popular understanding of American national identity. And by focusing on points of incoherence or dissonance in their telling of the national story, it suggests the impediment to national unity represented by race. Drawing attention to the ways in which popular entertainment confronted, sometimes through evasion and sometimes with a brutal honesty, the issue of race, Harpham proposes that analysis of these works can benefit our polarized and vitriolic conversation about our nation's most important problem"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Race in opera. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01086508 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Race in motion pictures. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01086507 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a African Americans in popular culture. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00799734 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a African Americans in musical theater. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01747045 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Noirs americains dans la culture populaire. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Race au cinema. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Race à l'opera. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans in popular culture. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Race in motion pictures. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Race in opera. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans in musical theater. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Gershwin, George, |d 1898-1937. |t Porgy and Bess. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Kern, Jerome, |d 1885-1945. |t Show boat. |
| 630 | 0 | 7 | |a Show boat (Kern, Jerome) |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01361527 |
| 630 | 0 | 7 | |a Porgy and Bess (Gershwin, George) |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01361840 |
| 630 | 0 | 7 | |a Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915) |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01356912 |
| 630 | 0 | 0 | |a Birth of a nation (Motion picture : 1915) |
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| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2022 American Studies | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2022 Complete | ||