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Author:

Jones, Douglas A., author.

Title:

The captive stage : performance and the proslavery imagination of the antebellum North / Douglas A. Jones, Jr.

Publisher:

The University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African Americans in the performing arts--Northeastern States--History--19th century.
Northeastern States--History--History--19th century.
Race discrimination--Northeastern States--History--19th century.
Whites--Northeastern States--History--19th century.
Blackface entertainers--Northeastern States--History--29th century.
Racism in popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
Slavery--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the "common sense" of slavery in the free Antebellum North -- Setting the stage of black freedom: parades and "presence" in the New Nation -- Black politics but not Black people: early minstrelsy, "White slavery", and the wedge of "Blackness" -- Washington and the slave: Black deformations, proslavery domesticity, and re-staging the birth of the nation -- The theatocracy of antebellum social reform: "monkeyism" and the mode of romantic racialism -- Melodrama and the performance of slave testimony; or, William Wells Brown's Inability to escape -- Epilogue: no exit, but a new stage.

Series:

Theater: theory/text/performance

ISBN:

0472052268 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780472052264 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0472072269 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780472072262 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)878117279

LCCN:

2014003519

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)