The Darkey Drama
Author : Edwin Byron CHRISTY
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Page : 622 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Edwin Byron CHRISTY
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Page : 622 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Henry Llewellyn Williams
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Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Minstrel shows
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 1882
Category : English imprints
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1882
Category : English literature
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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 960 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 1881
Category : English literature
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : New York Public Library
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1916
Category : American drama
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Author : Tanya Sheehan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0271082461
In this volume, Tanya Sheehan takes humor seriously in order to trace how photographic comedy was used in America and transnationally to express evolving ideas about race, black emancipation, and civil rights in the mid-1800s and into the twentieth century. Sheehan employs a trove of understudied materials to write a new history of photography, one that encompasses the rise of the commercial portrait studio in the 1840s, the popularization of amateur photography around 1900, and the mass circulation of postcards and other photographic ephemera in the twentieth century. She examines the racial politics that shaped some of the most essential elements of the medium, from the negative-positive process to the convention of the photographic smile. The book also places historical discourses in relation to contemporary art that critiques racism through humor, including the work of Genevieve Grieves, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, and Fred Wilson. By treating racial humor about and within the photographic medium as complex social commentary, rather than a collectible curiosity, Study in Black and White enriches our understanding of photography in popular culture. Transhistorical and interdisciplinary, this book will be of vital interest to scholars of art history and visual studies, critical race studies, U.S. history, and African American studies.
Author : Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822395738
In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to explore the creation of new publics. Moving from England to the Caribbean to the early United States, she traces the theatrical emergence of a collective body in the colonized New World—one that included indigenous peoples, diasporic Africans, and diasporic Europeans. In the raucous space of the theatre, the contradictions of colonialism loomed large. Foremost among these was the central paradox of modernity: the coexistence of a massive slave economy and a nascent politics of freedom. Audiences in London eagerly watched the royal slave, Oroonoko, tortured on stage, while audiences in Charleston and Kingston were forbidden from watching the same scene. Audiences in Kingston and New York City exuberantly participated in the slaying of Richard III on stage, enacting the rise of the "people," and Native American leaders were enjoined to watch actors in blackface "jump Jim Crow." Dillon argues that the theater served as a "performative commons," staging debates over representation in a political world based on popular sovereignty. Her book is a capacious account of performance, aesthetics, and modernity in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.