Bodies in dissent : spectacular performances of race and freedom, 1850-1910 /
Highlighting the connections between performance and construction of racial identities, this work argues that from the mid 19th century to the early 20th, black transatlantic entertainers often transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalisation into modes of self-actualisa...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Our bodies, our/selves: racial phantasmagoria and cultural struggle
- The escape artist: Henry Box Brown, black abolitionist performance, and moving panoramas of slavery
- The deeds done in my body: performance, black(ened) women, and Adah Isaacs Menken in the racial imaginary
- Alien/nation: re-imagining the black body (politic) in Williams and Walker's In Dahomey
- Divas and diasporic consciousness: song, dance, and new negro womanhood in the veil
- Epilogue: theater, black women, and change.