Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910

Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
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475
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0822337223
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Bulfinch
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In Bodies in Dissent Daphne A. Brooks argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic activists, actors, singers, and other entertainers frequently transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance. Brooks considers the work of African American, Anglo, and racially ambiguous performers in a range of popular entertainment, including racial melodrama, spectacular theatre, moving panorama exhibitions, Pan-Africanist musicals, Victorian magic shows, religious and secular song, spiritualism, and dance. She describes how these entertainers experimented with different ways of presenting their bodies in publicA?A€A”through dress, movement, and theatrical technologiesA?A€A”to defamiliarize the spectacle of A?A€A?blacknessA?A€A? in the transatlantic imaginary. Brooks pieces together reviews, letters, playbills, fiction, and biography in order to reconstruct not...

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