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Creole Drama : Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Writing the Early Americas SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813942322
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creole DramaDDC classification:
  • 792.09763355
LOC classification:
  • PN2277.N4 .B738 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Circum-Atlantic Theatrical Relations: The Emergence of the Francophone Stage in a Spanish City -- Chapter 2. Local Struggles Past and Present: Creoles, Americans, and the Battle for Cultural Sovereignty -- Chapter 3. New Orleans's Free Black Theatres: The Performance of Hemispheric Community -- Chapter 4. Negotiating Creole Identity: Citizenship, Belonging, and the American Nation -- Chapter 5. Transatlantic Vistas: Changing Alliances at Home and Abroad -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Recognizing theatres as sites of cultural exchange that could cross oceans and borders, Creole Drama offers not only a detailed history of francophone theatre in New Orleans but an account of the surprising ways in which multilingualism and early transnational networks helped create the American nation.
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Circum-Atlantic Theatrical Relations: The Emergence of the Francophone Stage in a Spanish City -- Chapter 2. Local Struggles Past and Present: Creoles, Americans, and the Battle for Cultural Sovereignty -- Chapter 3. New Orleans's Free Black Theatres: The Performance of Hemispheric Community -- Chapter 4. Negotiating Creole Identity: Citizenship, Belonging, and the American Nation -- Chapter 5. Transatlantic Vistas: Changing Alliances at Home and Abroad -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Recognizing theatres as sites of cultural exchange that could cross oceans and borders, Creole Drama offers not only a detailed history of francophone theatre in New Orleans but an account of the surprising ways in which multilingualism and early transnational networks helped create the American nation.

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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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