An edition of Street scenes
(2008)
Street scenes
staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924
by Esther Romeyn
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'Street Scenes' focuses on the intersection of modern city life and stage performance. From street life and slumming to vaudeville and early cinema, to Yiddish theatre and blackface comedy, Romeyn discloses racial comedy, passing, and masquerade as gestures of cultural translation.
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City and town life, Ethnic relations, Ethnicity, History, Immigrants, Intellectual life, Minorities, Performing arts, Self, Social aspects of Performing arts, Social conditions, Minorities, united states, social conditions, Immigrants, united states, Performing arts, history, United states, ethnic relations, New york (n.y.), intellectual life, Social aspectsPlaces
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Street scenes: staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924
2008, University of Minnesota Press
in English
0816645213 9780816645213
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. The city as theater : performativity and urban space
The epistemology of the city
Detecting, acting, and the hierarchy of the social body
Crossing the Bowery : female slumming and the theater of urban space
Eros and Americanization : the rise of David Levinsky, or, The etiquette of race and sex
pt. 2. Stages of identity : performing ethnic subjects
Juggling identities : the case of an Italian-American clown
My other/my self : impersonation and the rehearsal of otherness
The truth of racial signs : civilizing the Jewish comic
Blackface, Jewface, whiteface : racial impersonation revisited.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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