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Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905

Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesTheater HistoryIrish History

ISBN10: 1137482648
ISBN13: 9781137482648
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Sep 15 2015
Pages: 253
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival material, Mooney argues that the vaudeville stage was an important venue in which an Irish-American identity was constructed, negotiated, and refined.

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