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The captive stage : performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North
- Title
- The captive stage : performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North / Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
- Author
- Jones, Douglas A.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor [Michigan] : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- x, 218 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Theater: theory/text/performance
- Uniform Title
- Theater--theory/text/performance.
- Subjects
- Northeastern States > Race relations > History > 19th century
- Slavery > United States > History > 19th century
- African Americans in the performing arts > Northeastern States > History > 19th century
- Racism in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century
- Blackface entertainers > Northeastern States > History > 29th century
- Whites > Northeastern States > History > 19th century
- Race discrimination > Northeastern States > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-1463
- ISBN
- 9780472072262
- 0472072269
- 9780472052264
- 0472052268
- 9780472120437 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014003519
- OCLC
- 878117279
- Author
- Jones, Douglas A., author.
- Title
- The captive stage : performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North / Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor [Michigan] : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Theater: theory/text/performanceTheater--theory/text/performance.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-1463