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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Southern Stages: Space and Memory in Us Performance

Southern Stages: Space and Memory in Us Performance

Hopkins, Chandra Owenby

Paperback

Series: Studies Theatre Hist & Culture

Black American HistoryTheater History

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ISBN10: 1685970354
ISBN13: 9781685970352
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Each day, countless southerners pass symbols and monuments dedicated to white supremacy and the Old South statues, cemeteries, plantations, downtown squares, and even regional theatre stages. Some may only glance at them, ignorant to their history, while others recall the physical and psychological trauma embedded by generations of enslavement.

Through the eyes of actors and everyday people, Southern Stages offers an engaging new model for interrogating the performance of southernness, as well as how memory and imagination intersect in spaces that have shaped hundreds of years of American history. Chandra Owenby Hopkins employs cultural memory and lived realities of Black and white communities to examine the earliest and most enduring southern stages: the playhouse and the public square.

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