Racism and Early Blackface Comic Traditions
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-08608-4 (ISBN)
Robert Hornback is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Oglethorpe University, USA. He teaches Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Contemporaries, Medieval & Renaissance Literature, Ancient Literature, and Comedy: Ancient to Renaissance. He is the author of The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare (2009) and has published widely on fools and comedy.
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.
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.01.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
Zusatzinfo | XIV, 324 p. 9 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 445 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Schlagworte | blackface • Blackness • Clown • Colonialism • Fool • minstrel • Racism • Shakespeare • Slavery • whiteness |
ISBN-10 | 3-030-08608-9 / 3030086089 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-08608-4 / 9783030086084 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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