MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02188cam a2200385 i 4500
001 2014003519
003 DLC
005 20151001080908.0
008 140421s2014 miua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2014003519
020 $a9780472072262 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780472052264 (paper : alk. paper)
020 $z9780472120437 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aPN2270.A35$bJ55 2014
082 00 $a812/.3093552$223
100 1 $aJones, Douglas A.
245 14 $aThe captive stage :$bperformance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North /$cDouglas A. Jones, Jr.
264 1 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c[2014]
300 $ax, 218 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aTheater: Theory/Text/Performance
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 171-206) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in the performing arts$zNortheastern states$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aNortheastern states$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aRace discrimination$zNortheastern states$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWhites$zNortheastern states$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aBlackface entertainers$zNortheastern states$xHistory$y29th century.
650 0 $aRacism in popular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.