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Resistance, parody, and double consciousness in African American theatre, 1895-1910
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- Creator
- David Krasner
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997
- Physical Details
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- 218 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780312173630, 0312173636
- OCLC
- ocm36528397
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-212) and index.
- Introduction: Black theatre and American society -- "The mirror up to nature": modernist aesthetics and racial authenticity in African American theatre, 1895-1900 -- "Glimpses of higher possibilities": class and race in African American theatre during the early Progressive Era -- Rewriting the body: Aida Overton Walker and the social formation of cakewalking -- "Have you ever seen anyone stick so close to a cracker?": parody, romance, and history in Williams and Walker's Abyssinia -- "The ladder of fame": pragmatic ideology and overlapping diasporas in African American theatre, 1906-1910 -- "A way of telling your stuff": the past is now present