The captive stage
Jones, Douglas A.
The captive stage performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North / [electronic resource] : Douglas A. Jones, Jr. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Theater: theory/text/performance . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780472120437 0472120433
Slavery--History--United States--19th century.
Racism in popular culture--History--United States--19th century.
Blackface entertainers--History--Northeastern states--29th century.
Whites--History--Northeastern states--19th century.
Race discrimination--History--Northeastern states--19th century.
Northeastern states--Race relations--History--19th century.
African Americans in the performing arts--History--Northeastern states--19th century.
Electronic books.
PN2270.A35 / J55 2014
812/.3093552
The captive stage performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North / [electronic resource] : Douglas A. Jones, Jr. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Theater: theory/text/performance . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780472120437 0472120433
Slavery--History--United States--19th century.
Racism in popular culture--History--United States--19th century.
Blackface entertainers--History--Northeastern states--29th century.
Whites--History--Northeastern states--19th century.
Race discrimination--History--Northeastern states--19th century.
Northeastern states--Race relations--History--19th century.
African Americans in the performing arts--History--Northeastern states--19th century.
Electronic books.
PN2270.A35 / J55 2014
812/.3093552