Uncle Tom's Cabins -

Uncle Tom's Cabins

The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book
Buch | Hardcover
464 Seiten
2018
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-03708-7 (ISBN)
112,35 inkl. MwSt
Tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey, explicating the novel's significance for Canadian abolitionists; nineteenth-century French theatregoers; liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals; Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists; Eastern European Cold War communists; Muslim readers and spectators in the Middle East; Brazilian TV audiences; and German holidaymakers.
As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom’s journey, explicating the novel’s significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian political elite that constituted the runaway characters’ landing points; nineteenth-century French theatergoers; liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals and social reformers; Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists in Southeast Asia; Eastern European Cold War communists; Muslim readers and spectators in the Middle East; Brazilian television audiences; and twentieth-century German holidaymakers.

Throughout these encounters, Stowe’s story of American slavery serves as a paradigm for understanding oppression, selectively and strategically refracting the African American slave onto other iconic victims and freedom fighters. The book brings together performance historians, literary critics, and media theorists to demonstrate how the myriad cultural and political effects of Stowe’s enduring story has transformed it into a global metanarrative with national, regional, and local specificity.

Tracy C. Davis is Barber Professor of Performing Arts at Northwestern University. Stefka Mihaylova is Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramatic Criticism at the University of Washington.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 25 illustrations
Verlagsort Ann Arbor
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 750 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-472-03708-0 / 0472037080
ISBN-13 978-0-472-03708-7 / 9780472037087
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