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Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions: From the Old World to the New

Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions: From the Old World to the New

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

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ISBN10: 3319780476
ISBN13: 9783319780474
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 31 2018
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
1.Introduction: Recovering the Contexts of Early Modern Proto-Racism.2. Harlequin as Theatergram: Transmitting the Time-Worn Black Mask, Ancient to Antebellum.3. Beyond Good and Evil Symbolism: Allegories and Metaphysics of Blackfaced Folly.4. From Allegorical Type and Sartorial Satire to Minstrel Dandy Stereotype and Blackface-on-Black Violence.5. Sambo Dialects: Defining National Language Boundaries via Early Representations of Stereotypically Black Speech.6. Blackface in Shakespeare: Challenging Racial Allegories of Folly and Speech.7. Shakespeare in Blackface: Black Shakespeareans vs. Minstrel Burlesques, 1821-1844.8. A New Theory of Pre-Modern or Proto-Racism.9. White Nationalism, Trolling Humor as Propaganda, and the Renaissance of Christian Racism in the Age of Trump.

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