The captive stage [electronic resource] : performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North / Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
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TextSeries: Theater: theory/text/performance | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN: - 9780472120437
- 0472120433
- Slavery -- United 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
- Northeastern states -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans in the performing arts -- Northeastern states -- History -- 19th century
- 812/.3093552 23
- PN2270.A35 J55 2014
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.
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