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Bodies in Dissent : Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (489 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822387558
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bodies in DissentDDC classification:
  • 791.08996073
LOC classification:
  • PN2270
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Our Bodies, Our/Selves: Racial Phantasmagoria and Cultural Struggle -- 2. The Escape Artist: Henry Box Brown, Black Abolitionist Performance, and Moving Panoramas of Slavery -- 3. "The Deeds Done in My Body": Performance, Black(ened) Women, and Adah Isaacs Menken in the Racial Imaginary -- 4. Alien/Nation: Re-Imagining the Black Body (Politic) in Williams and Walker's In Dahomey -- 5. Divas and Diasporic Consciousness: Song, Dance, and New Negro Womanhood in the Veil -- Epilogue: Theatre, Black Women, and Change -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Our Bodies, Our/Selves: Racial Phantasmagoria and Cultural Struggle -- 2. The Escape Artist: Henry Box Brown, Black Abolitionist Performance, and Moving Panoramas of Slavery -- 3. "The Deeds Done in My Body": Performance, Black(ened) Women, and Adah Isaacs Menken in the Racial Imaginary -- 4. Alien/Nation: Re-Imagining the Black Body (Politic) in Williams and Walker's In Dahomey -- 5. Divas and Diasporic Consciousness: Song, Dance, and New Negro Womanhood in the Veil -- Epilogue: Theatre, Black Women, and Change -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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