Redface - Bethany Hughes

Redface

Race, Performance, and Indigeneity

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2024
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-2937-8 (ISBN)
92,25 inkl. MwSt
Considers the character of the “Stage Indian” in American theater and its racial and political impact

Redface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and even more crucially, exclude them from full citizenship in the United States. Arguing that redface is more than just the costumes or makeup an actor wears, Bethany Hughes contends that it is a collaborative, curatorial process through which artists and audiences make certain bodies legible as “Indian.” By chronicling how performances and definitions of redface rely upon legibility and delineations of race that are culturally constructed and routinely shifting, this book offers an understanding of how redface works to naturalize a very particular version of history and, in doing so, mask its own performativity.

Tracing the “Stage Indian” from its early nineteenth-century roots to its proliferation across theatrical entertainment forms and turn of the twenty-first century attempts to address its racist legacy, Redface uses case studies in law and civic life to understand its offstage impact. Hughes connects extensive scholarship on the “Indian” in American culture to the theatrical history of racial impersonation and critiques of settler colonialism, demonstrating redface’s high stakes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike. Revealing the persistence of redface and the challenges of fixing it, Redface closes by offering readers an embodied rehearsal of what it would mean to read not for the “Indian” but for Indigenous theater and performance as it has always existed in the US.

Bethany Hughes is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in the Department of American Culture and a core faculty member in the Native American Studies Program. Her work can be found in Theatre Journal, Mobilities, Theatre Survey, American Periodicals, and Theatre Topics.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.12.2024
Reihe/Serie Performance and American Cultures
Zusatzinfo 8 color and 22 b/w images
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4798-2937-4 / 1479829374
ISBN-13 978-1-4798-2937-8 / 9781479829378
Zustand Neuware
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