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100 1 $aNowatzki, Robert,$d1965-
245 10 $aRepresenting African Americans in transatlantic abolitionism and blackface minstrelsy /$cRobert Nowatzki.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c©2010.
300 $axi, 216 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 187-206) and index.
505 0 $aStrange bedfellows : blackface minstrelsy and abolitionism in America -- Abolitionism, nationalism, blackface minstrelsy, and racial attitudes in Victorian Britain -- Race, abolitionism, and blackface imagery in Victorian literature -- "Our only truly national poets" : blackface minstrelsy, slave narratives, cultural nationalism, and the American Renaissance -- Blackface tropes in nineteenth-century American literature.
520 8 $a"Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy explores the overlap and interplay between Uncle Tom and Jim Crow. Through his careful attention to the seemingly different worlds of abolition and minstrelsy, Nowatzki makes an important contribution to our understanding of the transatlantic nineteenth-century world."--Audrey Fisch, editor of The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative." "In this Intriguing study, Robert Nowatzki reveals the unexpected relationships between blackface entertainment and antislavery sentiment in the United States and Britain. He contends that the ideological ambiguity of both phenomena enabled the similarities between early minstrelsy and abolitiotionism in their depictions of African Americans, as well as their appropriations of each other's rhetoric, imagery, sentiment, and characterization. Because the antislavery movement had stronger support in Britain and an association with the middle classes, Nowatzki argues, its conflicts with blackface entertainment largely stemmed from British and American nationalism, class ideologies, and notions of "highbrow" and "lowbrow" culture." "Nowatzki examines the ideological clashes between representations of African Americans in the antislavery movement and in blackface entertainment, revealing their common ground. For instance, white abolitionists encouraged former slaves to relate their experiences in an exaggerated slaves to relate their experiences the appearance of intellecutal inferiority popularized by minstrel shows. Minstrelsy conflated African American culture with theatrical appropriations of it by white performers, but, as Nowatzki contends, the assumption that white actors could perform "authentic" blackness also undercut beliefs in racial essentalism--the notion that racial groups possess distinctive essence." "Combining Cultural studies with literary analysis, Nowatzki considers this staging of African American identity through a variety of texts, including slave narratives, travelogues, minstrel song lyric, stump speeches, and antislavery pamphlets, as well as the literary works of Dickens, Thackeray, and Carlyle on one side of the Atlantic, and Melville, Emerson, Sarah Margaret Fuller, and William Wells Brown on the other. A thorough and engaging analysis, Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abolitionism and Blackface Minstrelsy reveals how the most popular form of theatrical entertainment and the most significant reform movement of nineteenth-century Britain and America helped define cultural representations of African Americans."--Jacket.
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