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Author Jones, Douglas A.

Title The captive stage : performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North / Douglas A. Jones, Jr.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 218 pages).
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Series Theater: theory/text/performance
Theater--theory/text/performance.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-206) and index.
Contents Introduction: 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject African Americans in the performing arts -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans in the performing arts.
Northeastern States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Northeastern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Race relations.
Race discrimination -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
Race discrimination.
White people -- Northeastern States -- History -- 19th century.
White people.
Blackface entertainers -- Northeastern States -- History -- 29th century.
Blackface entertainers.
Chronological Term 29th century
Subject Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Racism in popular culture.
United States.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery.
DRAMA -- American.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Chronological Term 1800-2899
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Captive stage. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014] 9780472072262 (DLC) 2014003519
ISBN 9780472120437 (ebook)
0472120433
9780472072262 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780472052264 (paper ; alkaline paper)
9781322069197 (electronic book)
1322069190 (electronic book)
0472072269 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0472052268 (paper ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.5306356

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