Peter Reed (University of Mississippi)

Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

Peter P. Reed examines the meanings of Haiti in America's nineteenth-century popular performance. Plays, social performances, and literary narratives of Haiti's revolutionary slave revolts transformed racial revolution into popular entertainments and diversions, dramatizing themes of race, freedom, and power in ways that remain impactful today.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781009100526
• ISBN-10: 1009100521
• Artikelnr.: 64366601

Autorenporträt

Peter P. Reed is Associate Professor of Early American Literature at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Rogue Performances (2009) as well as essays on Black Atlantic performance, theatre culture, and Haiti's impact on American culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: performing the Haitian revolution; 1. Rebels and refugees:
sentimental suffering and antic revolt in the 1790s; 2. The lessons of
Haiti: performance, pedagogy, and the politics of Haitian independence; 3.
Virtuosity, illegitimacy, and Haitian royalty: Ira Aldridge and Christophe,
King of Hayti; 4. Travesty and transformation: Haiti and blackface
minstrelsy; 5. Abolitionist acts: Haitian respectability, oratory, and
celebrity performance; Conclusion: the pleasures and perils of
revolutionary reenactment.