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Racism and early blackface comic traditions : from the old world to the new
- Title
- Racism and early blackface comic traditions : from the old world to the new / Robert Hornback.
- Author
- Hornback, Robert
- Publication
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 324 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
- Uniform Title
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: Recovering the Contexts of Early Modern Proto-Racism -- 2. Harlequin as Theatergram: Transmitting the Timeworn Black Mask, Ancient to Antebellum -- 3. Beyond Good and Evil Symbolism: Allegories and Metaphysics of Blackfaced Folly from Augustine to Fanon -- 4. From Allegorical Type and Sartorial Satire to Minstrel Dandy Stereotype, Zip Coon, Jim Crow, and Blackface-on-Black Violence -- 5. Sambo Dialects: Defining National Language Boundaries via Early Representations of Stereotypically Black Speech -- 6. Blackface in Shakespeare: Challenging Racial Allegories of Folly and Speech--Cleopatra, Caliban, Othello -- 7. Shakespeare in Blackface: Black Shakespeareans versus Minstrel Burlesques, 1821-1844, or Othello versus Otello -- 8. Conclusion: A New Theory of Pre-Modern or Proto-Racism -- 9. Afterword: White Nationalism, Trolling Humor as Propaganda, and the "Renaissance" of Christian Racism in the Age of Trump.
- Call Number
- MWET 19-2909
- ISBN
- 3319780476
- 9783319780474
- 9783319780481 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018944441
- OCLC
- 1023525900
- Author
- Hornback, Robert, author.
- Title
- Racism and early blackface comic traditions : from the old world to the new / Robert Hornback.
- Publisher
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Palgrave studies in theatre and performance historyPalgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY.
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Hornback, Robert. Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018] 9783319780481 (OCoLC)1045629562
- Research Call Number
- MWET 19-2909