Cultivating National Identity through Performance

Naomi Stubbs is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Laguardia Community College, City University of New York, USA.

1. Performing Nation: The Pleasure Gardens as a Space for Defining America 2. Performing Place: The Rural/Urban Tension 3. Performing Class: The Challenge to and Reaffirmation of Class Divisions and Hierarchies 4. Performing Race: Native Americans and African Americans Within the Gardens 5. Beyond the Pleasure Garden