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020 _a9780472120437
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020 _z9780472072262 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z9780472052264 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z0472072269
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aPN2270.A35
_bJ55 2014
082 0 0 _a812/.3093552
_223
100 1 _aJones, Douglas A.
245 1 0 _aThe captive stage
_h[electronic resource] :
_bperformance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North /
_cDouglas A. Jones, Jr.
260 _aAnn Arbor :
_bUniversity of Michigan Press,
_c2014.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
490 0 _aTheater: theory/text/performance
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aSlavery
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aRacism in popular culture
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aBlackface entertainers
_zNortheastern states
_xHistory
_y29th century.
650 0 _aWhites
_zNortheastern states
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aRace discrimination
_zNortheastern states
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aNortheastern states
_xRace relations
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in the performing arts
_zNortheastern states
_xHistory
_y19th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780472120437/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c30832
_d30832