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Author:

Nowatzki, Robert, 1965-

Title:

Representing African Americans in transatlantic abolitionism and blackface minstrelsy / Robert Nowatzki.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

[xiii], 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Minstrel shows--History--United States--History--19th century.
Minstrel shows--History--Great Britain--History--19th century.
African Americans in popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
African Americans in popular culture--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-206) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Strange bedfellows : blackface minstrelsy and abolitionism in America -- Abolitionism, nationalism, blackface minstrelsy, and racial attitudes in Victorian Britain -- Race, abolitionism, and blackface imagery in Victorian literature -- Our only truly national poets : blackface minstrelsy, slave narratives, cultural -- Nationalism, and the American Renaissance -- Blackface tropes in nineteenth-century American literature -- Afterword.

ISBN:

0807137456 (e-book)
9780807137451 (e-book)
0807136409 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780807136409 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)460061366

LCCN:

2009049517

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)